Wintersville

Summoned: Gregg Williams, 60, 120 Luanne Drive, Weirton, possession of a controlled substance and open container, July 10. Williams was cited for driving under the influence, failure to control and no operator’s license.

Cited for speeding: Nicole F. Ireland, 27, 3066 Wylie Ridge Road, Weirton; Fallon Martin, 24, 178 Stardust Drive; Frank Davis, 48, 432 state Route 151, Mingo Junction; Garrett Holden, 23, Cadiz; Lisa A. Degarmo, 44, 26 Marshall St., Wellsburg; and Jeffrey E. Foster, 69, 705 Euclid Ave., Toronto.

Cited: Givi Tchilaia, 38, Brooklyn, N.Y., marked lanes violation; Alyssa D. Piergallini, 31, 86400 Bakers Ridge Road, Jewett, fictitious plate; and Brandon T. Hodgkins, 22, Apartment 3, 3225 Sunset Blvd., Steubenville, speeding and expired plate.

Follansbee

Charged: Jason M. Sandy, 1385 Hardins Run Road, New Cumberland, driving while suspended for driving under the influence, Wednesday.

Jefferson County Sheriff

Causing problems: A Cadiz man was booked into the Jefferson County Jail after allegedly causing problems at two locations in Amsterdam, Thursday. Deputies said a Carl R. Smith, 36, 140 E. Market St., Cadiz, was charged with domestic violence after he allegedly entered a residence on Third Street and started arguing with a woman, allegedly hitting her. She told them Smith hit her dog and also hit her in the chest. Deputies said she had no visible injuries but alleged the man acts irrtionally at time and told them he was unaware he’d driven her lawn tractor to a residence on Liberty Street and left it parked there in a woman’s driveway. That woman told deputies Smith was “talking out of his mind and doing strange things,” so she told him to leave. She said he left the tractor parked in her driveway but returned 10 minutes later and knocked on her door until she yelled out she was calling police. Deputies circled back to the Third Street location and spotted Smith talking to his girlfriend and heard him telling her he “didn’t do anything wrong.” When they questioned him, he denied being near the Second Street residence or striking anyone, telling deputies he was “home most of the night until he got into an argument” with his girlfriend. Deputies said Smith told them he left the residence to calm down and when he came home to talk it out with her “cops showed up.”

Listen up: A Steubenville man who’d been drinking called 9-1-1 to report a family member had a gun and was causing problems, Thursday. Police said they could hear yelling from inside the residence, and when they spoke with the caller realized he was “clearly intoxicated” with bloodshot eyes and smelling of alcohol. He claimed the argument started because the family member is a drug addict and he wants him out of the house, but his wife told deputies her husband’s behavior is the problem. She said the person he’d complained about “doesn’t use drugs” and what her husband was doing to him was “uncalled for,” saying he gets “belligerent and ignorant” when he drinks and annoys people around him. Deputies showed the man to a chair outside and told him to remain there while the the individual gathered a few belongings and prepared to leave for the night but, instead, he ran into the house and locked the front door. Deputies said they used a key to get inside while he was trying to lock the back door and took him into custody. Deputies charged Jerry Lee Taylor, 72, 139 Milhorne Lane, Steubenville, with obstructing official business.

Had enough: A woman renovating a Smithfield residence said she arrived at the property to find the front door open and the back door kicked in, Thursday. She told deputies a number of tools were missing, including a DeWalt impact driver, a DeWalt grinder, a Hoy drill, two cylindrical fans/neaters, a tool bag with several hundred dollars in hand tools, hammers, wrenches and screw drivers and some cleaning items. She told deputies she thinks three people who have stolen from her family before were responsible for the latest thefts.

Argumentative: A Toronto woman said she was driving her husband to work when they got into an argument and he jumped out of the car when she slowed at a stop sign, Wednesday. She said she turned around and drove him and he showed up there not long after, beating on the doors and screaming,” waking everyone up. He eventually called his ex to come and get him but ever since he has been texting threats that he was “going to lie and say she hit him with her car.”

Scammer foiled: A Bloomingdale man said someone pretending to work with Amazon told him he owns the company $1,499 and tried to get him to go to Kroger and draw all the money (out of) his bank,” Thursday. He said he told the caller he didn’t owe Amazon anything, then asked the man for the last two digits of his number but he refused and hung up. He said his bank assured him no money had been removed from his account.

Steubenville Police

Injured: Police said a man cutting grass on the hillside along Sunset Boulevard became light-headed, fell down the hill and onto the roadway, sustaining a head injury, Thursday. He was slow to respond, they said, so he was taken to an area hospital for treatment.

On the house: A woman stood outside Maryland Market drinking a coffee she didn’t pay for, Thursday. An employee said the woman also took a pastry, but when she told her she needed to pay for the items she handed her the pastry and walked away with the coffee.

Homeless: Police caught a man leaving an abandoned property downtown, Thursday. He admitted he’d been sleeping inside the residence, so police told them he can’t stay there and needed to gather his things and leave.

False alarm: Callers thought someone was sleeping on the steps in front of JFK Apartments, Thursday. Upon closer inspection police discovered the “person” was just a pile of blankets, and theorized heavy wind may have blown them off someone’s balcony.

Grownups need to grow up: Police told a woman in the 1400 block of Maryland Avenue to stay away from a neighbor’s property “as it has been evident in the past that (the two of them) are unable to be near one another without there being an incident,” Thursday. The latest incident was triggered when a child “came home crying” because she’d been accused of throwing rocks at a son of the other woman. The girl’s mother “became upset and wished to speak with the (other child’s mother),” police said. The other mother called police and said she was refusing to leave. The other mother claimed the girl and her siblings were throwing rocks at her son, and even though “nobody was actually struck with a rock … it upset her to see her son being picked on” and that once her children came home, the girl’s mother “arrived at her residence and was refusing to leave.” She didn’t have video of any rock throwing, but she did have video of the neighbor coming on her property, police said.

Cooling off: Wal-Mart employees said they watched a man openly drinking beer in the walkway between the store and mall after shoppers complained, Thursday. Police said Stephen R. Boyer, 30, 410 Wilson Place, Steubenville, was cited for having an open container after they saw him holding an open 40-ounce Budweiser wrapped in a grocery bag. They said Moyer had told them he was waiting for the bus after work and that he’d finished one can and was almost done with the second. Police said Boyer did not appear to be intoxicated but they had to cite him because city code forbids open containers and consumption of alcohol in public, even if the container is concealed.

Bad break: A man who broke up a fight in a parking lot in the 100 block of North Fourth Street earlier in the week said someone took advantage of the opportunity to steal his cell phone, wallet and tablet, Thursday. He told police he’d put his things down in the lobby by the mailboxes to break up the fight Monday, and by the time he got back they’d been stolen.

Childish: Shoppers at Wal-Mart complained that juveniles were running through the store, throwing condoms at each other and being a nuisance, Thursday. The kids “fled the store in separate directions” before police got there, they said.

Serenity now: A shopper got herself banned from all Wal-Mart properties after she was spotted at the self-checkout jabbing the touchscreen “very hard with her thumb” several times and pulled the metal bag hook rack off its mooring, Thursday. She told police she was “frustrated that the self-checkout was having issues” and wouldn’t work when she touched more gently, and when she tried to run her card through the payment reader “she found it defective and hanging loosely from its mount, causing it to rotate and flop around.” She said she wasn’t trying to damage anything and when she grabbed the bag rack she was just trying to move it out of her way. Police said the touch screen was not damaged but a bolt holding the bag rack in place was missing.

Booked: Kevin Jackson, 30, Elkhart, Ind., bench warrant out of Toronto County Court, Thursday;

Scammed: A Woodlawn Avenue resident said she deposited an e-mail check for $500 from someone who wanted her to paint a portrait for them and when she checked her account the following day it was no longer there, Thursday,

Drugs: An apparent overdose was reported on Lawson Avenue near State Street, Thursday. Steubenville firefightes/EMS administered Narcan, and when he revived told them he “thought he snorted heroin.” He was taken to Trinity Medical Center West for further treatment.

Cited: Justyn Hendricks, 30, 338 Lawson Ave., Steubenville, speeding.