STEUBENVILLE — A Jefferson County grand jury on Wednesday indicted the parents of a baby that died in their care on felony child endangerment charges.

A total of 15 people were ordered by grand jurors to stand trial, including a woman who was allegedly trying to evade police when she T-boned a red Bronco Sept. 18 at the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and John Scott Highway and another who allegedly had a guitar case filled with methamphetamine in his car.

Ryan Summers Jr., 19, 2004 Main St., Rayland, and Alessia Spear, 18, 62 Maine Dr., Moundsville, were each named in two-count indictments charging them with felony and misdemeanor counts of child endangerment.

Authorities maintain the couple’s two young children — a 4-month-old and a 1-year-old — were living in “deplorable conditions” in a home “full of dog feces and trash” and officers had to walk through that filth to get to the children on Aug. 21.

Their felony indictments allege the parents failed to properly care for the children, resulting in “serious physical harm” to the 4-month-old baby, who died. Their misdemeanor charges allege the couple “created a substantial risk to the health or safety” of the older child, now living in what authorities characterize as “a safe place.”

• Hillary Jo Batenburg, 43, 1209 Gilcrest St., Brilliant, aggravated vehicular assault and failure to comply with an order or signal of a police officer, both felonies.

In September, sheriff’s deputies tried to pull Batenburg over for an alleged marked lane violation and reckless driving but, instead of stopping, they said she “led them on a chase up and down Sunset at least three times before she T-boned a woman” headed to Planet Fitness, authorities said.

Deputies reported that after the impact, Batenburg jumped through the window “face first, and landed on the pavement” and “was screaming and … claimed there was a child in the vehicle,” though she was the only person in it.

• George Mavromatis III, 36, 123 New Alexandria Rd., Brilliant, possession of cocaine with a major drug offender specification; trafficking cocaine; aggravated possession of drugs and improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle, all felonies.

Authorities allege Mavromatis had 444 grams of cocaine and 14 grams of methamphetamine stuffed “in a guitar case” in his car when authorities pulled him over Sept. 19, and that he had “the (same) white powder all over his face.”

The indictment also alleges Mavromatis had “a loaded handgun in (the car he was operating) when he was under the influence” of alcohol, drugs or both.

• Dean M. Timblin, 29, 314 Terrace Ave, Steubenville, aggravated possession of drugs and tampering with evidence, both felonies.

Police had reported finding two bags of methamphetamine in Timblin’s vehicle along with what was believed to be residue of the same substance on the driver’s door panel and floor when they pulled him over on a federal parole violation Sept. 20 in Steubenville.

Also indicted were:

• Rafael Geronimo Gurule, 29, Eagle, CO, aggravated robbery and three counts of assault, all felonies.

Authorities allege that while taking Gurule into custody during an Aug. 31 disturbance call he tried to grab an officer’s gun and assaulted police officers — striking a female officer and tackling another before trying to get the gun of a third.

Authorities allege Gurule tried to throw a large Power Wheels Jeep at the officers.

• James Thomas Birkhimer, 59, 134 Spring Ave., Mingo Junction, aggravated possession of drugs and possession of cocaine, both felonies.

Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies allegedly found methamphetamine and a small amount of cocaine in Birkhimer’s vehicle after a K9 officer alerted to the presence of drugs during a July 20 traffic stop.

• Zane A. Walker, 43, 1209 Gilcrest St., Brilliant, a misdemeanor charge of operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol, drugs or both and a felony charge of failing to comply with an order or signal of a police officer. The indictment includes a specification for forfeiture, a 2016 Honda Accord, “used in the commission or facilitation” of the alleged offense.

Police tried to pull Walker over after he allegedly was spotted going the wrong way on a one-way street, Court Alley, and when they tried to stop him claimed he “immediately began to accelerate at a high rate of speed” and ran several stop signs, authorities allege. Instead of stopping, they said Walker left the scene, making his way to County Road 26 before exiting the vehicle and fleeing on foot. Authorities said Jefferson County K9 Rasti located Walker in a wooded area and he was taken into custody.

• Melvin Hayes Jr., 26, 2765 State Route 646, Richmond, two counts of failing to register, both felonies. Authorities allege Hayes, required to register as a sex offender due to a 2017 conviction in Common Pleas Court for unlawful sexual content with a minor and a 2019 conviction for importuning, also in Jefferson County, failed to register a change of address.

• Michael Sempkowski, 52, 64 Township Rd. 113, Rayland, one felony count of aggravated possession of drugs. Detectives with the Jefferson County Drug Task Force allegedly found methamphetamine in Sempkowski’s home during an Aug. 16 search.

• Andrew Louis Krivenko, 637 N. 5 th St., Steubenville, aggravated possession of drugs.

The felony indictment alleges Krivenko, 61, had methamphetamine in his possession when he was taken into custody July 19 during a disturbance call.

Police allegedly heard “a male screaming and observed a cell phone being thrown to the top of the stairs” when they responded to a July 19 disturbance call, and reported seeing the man holding “what appeared to be some kind of pipe getting ready to strike the female involved.”

• Tyrel Maurice Simmons, 31, 457 McLister Ave., Mingo Junction, possession of cocaine, a felony, in July.

• Joseph Anson Woodland, 36, 1420 Madison Ave., Toronto, aggravated possession of drugs, a felony. The indictment alleges Woodland had methamphetamine in his possession July 5.

Grand jurors also returned superseding indictments against:

• Michael Eugene Shriver, 34, 3242 County Road 58, Irondale, charging him with an additional count of felony strangulation. The original indictment, returned in 2023, had charged Shriver with two counts of burglary and felonious assault, all felonies, along with misdemeanor criminal damaging or endangering.

The amended indictment alleges Shriver “created a substantial risk of physical harm” to a woman “by means of strangulation or suffocation.”

• Sean Christopher Cassels, 37, 348 Orchard Place, Wintersville, charging him with an additional count of identity fraud against a person in a protected class, a felony. The original indictment, returned six months ago, had charged Cassels with misuse of credit cards, theft from a person in a protected class and grand theft, also felonies.

Cassels allegedly opened a credit card using the name and information of an 86-year-old family member, a Vietnam veteran, and ran up more than $20,000 in debt over a three-month period beginning in November, authorities had said.