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April 1

Drake Ziarko, Steubenville

Police Beat

Birthdays

April 1

Drake Ziarko, Steubenville

Police Beat

Steubenville Police

Making it up: Someone called 9-1-1 and claimed to be chased “by someone with a knife” in the 500 block of Lawson Avenue before hanging up Monday. The caller didn’t give any more information and didn’t answer when dispatchers tried to call him or her back. Police talked to individuals in the area “who all advised they did not observe any such incident and none of them were the caller.”

Nicotine fit: A man upset because a Coen clerk wouldn’t sell him tobacco products without a valid identification card caused a disturbance Monday. Police en route to the store in the 900 block of 7th Street were flagged down by a motorist who told them the upset customer was on the next block. When they talked to him, the man said he was upset because the clerk wanted to see an ID before selling him the item. Employees said he was “throwing food items on the countertop and was attempting to intimidate staff” and wanted him trespassed from the store because they don’t want him on the premises any more.

Angry panhandler: Callers reported a man in the 100 block of N. 4th Street “arguing with (people) after they refused to give him money” Monday. When police found him he was sitting on a bench and “denied arguing with anyone or asking for money.” He was given a drug treatment form, transported to the hospital for evaluation and informed he

Police were asked to do a welfare check on an intoxicated woman Sunday. The informant said the woman had called her and was “groggy and intoxicated,” and when she entered the residence to check on her found her on the floor. Police said the woman admitted she’d been drinking and wanted to go to the hospital.

Booked: Mary I. Eddy, 36, 617 Grandview Ave., Steubenville, probation violation, Monday.

Cited: Jamesina L. Starr, 39, 355 Mellwood Dr., Toronto, possession of drugs warrant, Monday.

Jefferson County Sheriff

Booked: A custody dispute involving at least four reports filed in two jurisdictions and numerous calls to supervisors ended with a female in custody for domestic violence Monday. Deputies said Brooke Gravelle, 2853 Unionport Road, Bloomingdale, was charged with domestic violence after her ex alleged he’d waited for hours for her to return their child to him, ignored his texts requesting an update on when she would and when he knocked on her door again at midnight, opened it and “started screaming at him…then began hitting him (and) kicked him in the chest with her foot.” Deputies said the ex, who is the custodial parent, had red marks on his chest and allege that when they knocked on her door, Gravelle was “rather upset at (their) presence” and that he was there” in the early morning hours…attempting to pick (the child) up.” They claim she eventually told them she’d been visiting family in Cleveland and denied receiving his texts but “refused to show if she had received the messages on her phone.”

Theft: An Irondale resident reported someone entered her detached garage and stole her son’s bicycle March 29. They were able to identify the culprit from footage a neighbor’s surveillance cameras captured of a male entering her garage and her husband drove around town and eventually located the bicycle outside the intruder’s home, who told deputies he’d argued with a family member and did “something stupid.” The family wants to pursue charges since the individual entered their garage.

Wild life: A Rayland woman told deputies she was trying to trap a raccoon “but ended up catching a baby bobcat” March 29. Deputies said ODNR dispatches stated they “would get a wild life officer to her.”

Road hazard: Drivers of three vehicles parked in the area of state Route 7 North at the Rayland exit said they “hit a pothole that caused a flat tire.”

Drugs: A caller in Mingo Junction reported a woman had overdosed and required Narcan March 29. People at the location said the woman is “an alcoholic and drinks every night” “and had been takin gabapentin, which she buys off the street due to her not having a prescription.” An individual who was present said the woman complained of being hot and requested ice water but when he returned she was passed out and was revived with three doses of Narcan. The individual with her said he was “unaware of her using any” drugs but when they checked the woman’s bedroom, deputies said they located a cigarette pack with white residue, along with a substance believed to be crack cocaine, half a pill that deputies believed to contain cocaine and a burned glass pipe.

ATV issues: An Irondale woman complained about an ATV rally over the weekend in Saline Township March 28. She said the “traffic on the roadways and the noise is out of control,” and stated the “ATVs and dirt bikes pull out into oncoming traffic and are extremely rude.” She said she had to “drag trees and place them on her property to keep the vehicles off…” Also, a Hammondsville resident complained about the same ATV rally, saying his property had been damaged by ATV riders coming on his land. He also complained “traffic and noise is out of control.” A man said he left his ATV with the keys in it parked in the woods while he went to the hill climb event and when he returned it was gone. Bystanders told him they “hadn’t seen anything parked there in six hours.”

Issues: A Rayland woman said her boyfriend “busted through her door and began to choke her” March 29. She said she didn’t call right away because she “had an anxiety attack” and wanted them to go with her to his house so she could feed her duck. She said she had time-stamped pictures of him doing it but didn’t want deputies to speak with him “because he would just say she was lying” and said she’d previously been denied a protection order and wasn’t willing to try again.

Had enough: A county resident said she gave her estranged husband a ride but he “started punching the dash and screaming at her,” so she kicked him out of the vehicle March 27.

Misstep: An East Springfield woman said she was washing her car when her dog “stepped on the door lock and has been (stuck) in the vehicle” March 27. Deputies said she had “already broken the window to get the dog out” before they arrived.

Scammed: A Rayland woman said a call showed private so she didn’t answer it, then the caller called back immediately and, thinking it was important, answered the phone. The individual calling claimed she was wanted for drug use, weapons charges and laundering money, and she ended up giving him “her banking information and all of her personal information, including her Social Security number.” Her grandson was able to freeze her account at one bank and was trying to contact another. He said he also froze her credit via one of the credit reporting agencies.

Stolen: A resident of state Route 151, Mingo Junction told deputies he saw a man in a smaller grey four-door pickup stop and snatch his garbage can Monday. He said the same thing had happened to a neighbor “a short time ago.”

U.S. Marshals

Serve: Travis Taylor, 50, 1096 Claire Ave., Steubenville, warrant for possession of drugs, Thursday.