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STEUBENVILLE–Steubenville’s Sanitation Department will be closed Wednesday in observance of Veteran’s Day.
Garbage collections will be one-day later than usual for customers with Wednesday or Thursday pickups, Superintendent Bob Baird said.
STEUBENVILLE POLICE
Problematic: Police were told a man who'd been informed he wasn't welcome at the shelter on N. 6th Street Saturday morning returned less than an hour later and damaged the property. Raymond L. Higgs, 54, was charged with criminal trespass, criminal mischief and menacing after they allegedly saw him trying to open a window. The property manager alleged Higgs was "walking around...removing downspouts from the gutters." Police said there were "numerous downspouts laying throughout the alleyway and could see openings in the gutters from where they were removed." The property manager claimed she also heard Higgs "make comments about having a bullet and and...he was going to start putting a bullet in peoples' heads" and was concerned for the safety of those staying at the shelter as well as herself.
Booked: Two pistols were seized and a city resident taken into custody after a traffic stop Friday. Police said Mamadue Guisse, 998 McKinley Ave., was booked into the county jail without bond on a charge of improperly handling of a firearm in a motor vehicle. Guisse, 45, allegedly smelled of alcohol and admitted he'd been drinking, police said. Guisse wasn't carrying a gun but police said they'd heard what they thought was the sound of a gun racking as they approached his vehicle and found two pistols stuffed in his glove box and report it "was loaded and one round was chambered." Guisse initially said he put the gun in the glove box but denied unloading it, then said he was "removing items from his hoody pocket and the gun was already in the glove box," police said.
Abandoned: A city worker found a box Friday containing newborn kittens at the storage building near the third-base dugout at the lower ball field in Belleview Park. Police checked cameras and said the kittens were dumped there nearly 24 hours earlier. They were taken to the county animal shelter and are now in foster care, police said.
Two-day bender: A Lawson Avenue woman told police her wife "had strangled her" Friday. The caller said her partner was "upset that she had been drinking" and admitted saying some harsh things in response, at which point she claims her partner choked her. Police said her partner told them the caller "had been drinking for nearly two days straight" and "could barely stand up under own power," which police said had been confirmed when the caller "actually (fell) over in front of (them)" and told them her partner "was born in the year 2071." The partner would not admit to assaulting the caller, who then "acted out what she had done" but had no visible injuries to prove her store. The caller eventually advised police she didn't want to pursue charges.
Wouldn't go: A Sunset Boulevard resident said a man "holding a bottle" was standing on her porch Friday and refused to leave, Friday. He told the caller he "was there to see someone" but she said she didn't know him and he was "acting very strangely and was staring at her house for some time."
Delinquent: A city resident told police she was jumped by several juveniles when she went to a Terri Avenue residence Saturday to pick up her daughter, who hadn't returned home the night before. Police said she had some scratches on her neck and elbows but didn't want to pursue charges, though she did want them to get her daughter. The girl by then had called her father and was allowed to go with him.
Loaded: Two people working in the 2100 block of Sunset Boulevard turned over what appeared to be a black Michael Kors purse with a handgun they'd found in a grassy area between parking lots Friday. Police said the gun "was loaded with a full 17-shell magazine but an empty chamber."
Rolled away: A city resident said she was traveling down Wellesley Extension when one of her front tires fell off her vehicle and she went off the road and hit a rock wall Saturday. She said the impacted "pushed her vehicle back onto the roadway." Police said the front of her car was heavily damaged.
Wake-up call: A Market Street resident complained that she was awakened by a commercial trash hauler before 6 a.m. Friday.
Charged: Jessica Ash, 41, no fixed address, misdemeanor theft, Friday. Ash allegedly tried to leave Kroger with more than $250 in merchandise, employees said.
Fender-bender: Matthew Allietta, 62, 112 Vireo Dr., Wintersville, cited for expired/unlawful plates after he allegedly rear-ended a vehicle in the left turn lane at Sunset at Stanton boulevard. Allietta said the other vehicle braked and he was unable to stop in time, police report.
Cited: Roneal E. Buford, 33, 108 Pembroke Rd., Steubenville, driving under suspension; Alexis N. Harshbarger, 25,313 Linduff Ave., Steubenville, failing to stop for a school bus; Timothy Morris Jr., 1012 Township Road 381, Steubenville, driving under suspension; and Megan Tennant, 35, Weirton, expired plates.