Trending
Jefferson County Sheriff
Bad idea: Two drivers reported what appeared to be a man lying in the middle of county Road 20, early Saturday morning. Deputies located the man, who said he'd gone for a walk and "must have ended up laying down and falling asleep in the roadway," though deputies noted he exhibited several signs of intoxication and smelled of alcohol "which intensified as he spoke." He admitted drinking earlier in the night. His wife pulled up and told deputies the man had been drinking throughout the night and had been arguing with his brother," who lives with them. She said she thought her husband went for a walk but wasn't sure where until she saw the sheriff's cruisers going by. The man said he decided to sleep in the road "because he felt it was the safest option due to animals being out in the rural wilderness" he found himself in. Deputies pointed out that wasn't the safest place to nap, "especially during heavy fog like the area was experiencing." Deputies told him next time he should think about "curling up on a comfy bale of hay" since there were some in sight or "maybe returning home to sleep in his own bed."
Compounding the problem: A woman returned to Jefferson County after being picked up in Carroll County on an outstanding warrant allegedly told correctional officers trying to book her into the county jail she'd she shot up just before she was arrested and needed to go to the hospital, Friday. Once at Trinity Medical Center West, deputies report the woman, identified as Amber Danielle Grimes, 37, 11881 state Route 164, Bergholz, told them on the way to the hospital she'd swallowed 1.5 grams of fentanyl that had been in it. Deputies said she told them she had the drugs on her before she was arrested in Carroll County, but authorities there had only run her through the scanner and never searched her. She said the fentanyl was yellow because gang members now put dye in it to establish their product," deputies noted. Grimes faces additional charges of tampering with evidence and conveying a prohibited substance into a jail, though she claimed she didn't know what to do with it. Deputies said she told them she didn't want to face charges for having the drug so she ate it, they said.
Wakeup call: A Rayland man said his neighbor tried to run him over with his car and said he thought he had a handgun, but minutes later clarified it was a crossbow, Friday. Dispatchers tried to get him to go inside his house but he refused, telling the dispatcher, "Nobody tells me what to do" and continuing to argue with the neighbor.
The neighbor told deputies he's tired of the man's girlfriend revving her car engine early in the morning and waking his daughter up. He said he's called the landlord several times and nothing's been done, so when it happened that morning, he went outside and got in his car, pulled up next to the caller's house and began blowing his horn and revving the engine. He said the caller came out and started hitting the front of his car, so he started to get out to yell at the caller but the caller punched him in the head, and he returned the blow. He said the caller then grabbed a small flag rod and stabbed him in the forearm. He said he has a crossbow but it's hanging on his bedroom wall, and while he admits telling the caller, "I got something for you," he said he never came out of the house with anything in his hands. The caller said he woke up to hear the horn blowing and the neighbor's car "almost touching his house and he was yelling at him." He said the neighbor hit him in the head, then went and got a crossbow and threatened him with it, telling deputies there's nothing he can do about the engine noise because the car has mechanical problems and they can't afford to fix it at the moment. He denied striking or stabbing the other man. Neither of them wanted to pursue charges and deputies told them to stay away from each other. His neighbor offered to give the caller the part he needs to fix his girlfriend's car from an old vehicle he owns.
Knock it off: A Brilliant man called deputies for a ride home from a female friend's home in Rayland, Friday. He said the friend gave him a ride to her house then locked him out. Deputies told him the sheriff's department isn't a cab company and he needed to contact a friend or family member, but he said he had none. He also refused to give deputies the female's phone number and was behaving strangely, and deputies determined the woman had called several times recently because he wouldn't leave her home so they went to the residence to check on her. She told them he arrived unannounced and uninvited, so she left her door locked and wouldn't let him in. Deputies said the man was "highly intoxicated" and couldn't walk on the road as he was, so they ended up taking him to a family member's home in Brilliant.
Threatened: A Bloomingdale man who's had ongoing trouble with his neighbors said someone stopped in front of his house and yelled, "You better get your dogs, if not I'm going to shoot them and then you," Friday.
Sticks and stones: A Wintersville man said someone was throwing rocks at his house, Saturday. He told deputies he figured it was kids.
Ripped off: A Bloomingdale woman told deputies she paid a man $12,000 in March for roof work that he's never done, Saturday. The woman said at one point he told her he was going to return the money, but she hasn't been able to reach him since. Deputies said she's going to have to file a civil suit against him for breach of contract.
Enough's enough: Three Bloomingdale area residents told deputies they're tired of being harassed and threatened by a man who doesn't even live on their road, Friday.
The three of them described several incidents in which they were trying to work on their property when the man and his three pitbulls, none of them leashed, have harassed them, "yelling and provoking" problems. They said he calls them names and tries start fights. One of them men told deputies he was riding his UTV on Dorsey Drive earlier in the day when the man started "waving a stick and threatening to assault (him)," and voiced concern the man's unleashed pitbulls posed a risk for his own dogs, even though they were on his property. All three men told deputies they're tired of the harassment, and one of them said he would like to pursue charges. Deputies suggested all three of them pursue a protection order.