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Police Beat STEUBENVILLE POLICE MIA: A teenager reported his 3-year-old brother missing Friday from the 900 block of Woodlawn. He said they were staying with his grandmother for the summer and said they’d gone to Belleview Park, but when they returned grandma was gone and the house was locked so he went into the backyard to answer nature’s call and when he returned he couldn’t find his brother. Police checked the area but didn’t locate the youngster so they charged the teen’s phone and had him call his grandmother, who told them she had the missing child with her. She said ...

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Birthdays June 27 Davina Evans, Mingo Junction Marilyn Campbell, Mingo Junction Haley Knight, Wintersville STEUBENVILLE POLICE Two men, two stories: Two men had wildly differing accounts of a confrontation in the 100 block of N. 4th Street Thursday. A Mingo Junction man told police he was threatened by a resident who thought he was ogling his girlfriend and said when he denied it the boyfriend “threatened to punch him in the throat if he did it again.” When police spoke with the woman’s boyfriend, he denied directing any threatening comments at the Mingo Junction man, ...

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STEUBENVILLE POLICE Good relations: A city resident told police his ex-brother-in-law called Wednesday to tell him he was coming to his home to “shoot him.” He told police he only knew his first name and that he lived several hours away. Phone fight: A caller reported a woman at the Fort Steuben Apartments Wednesday was “attempting to steal cell phones” and refused to leave. She claimed she was only asking to borrow someone’s phone so she could call for a ride. Building security told her she needed to leave the property. Throwing stones: Police were asked to check on ...

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Police Beat STEUBENVILLE POLICE Dogged: A city resident ended up in custody Saturday after she allegedly yelled obscenities and screamed at an officer who had asked her to get a dog running loose in front of her under control before it got too close to Juneteenth festival-goers. Police said Sheala M. Cronin Dembele, 35, 808 N. 8th St., was booked into the county jail with no bond on charges of assaulting an officer, resisting arrest, persistent disorderly, obstruction and having a dog at large. When the officer initially told Dembele to grab the dog she allegedly “started ...

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Today's Birthday June 24 Tim Lamantia, 23, Toronto

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STEUBENVILLE POLICE Window toss: An object was thrown out an apartment window Wednesday on N. 4th at Washington streets and hit a passing car. Police said there was a “large amount of broken glass” in the street and report the driver told them he was on Washington Street when he “heard a heavy thud on the top of his vehicle” so he pulled over and saw the broken glass. Police spotted two windows on the seventh floor of the north-facing side of the Fort Steuben Apartments had been broken as well as a broken wooden hammer handle “and the top portion of a ball-peen hammer” on ...