Common Pleas

New Cases

County Treasurer, Lisbon, vs. Russell Jones, Haiti Road, Salineville; delinquent property tax foreclosure sought for Haiti Road, Salineville property.

County Treasurer, Lisbon, vs. Rebecca Dickson, Malone Road, Salineville, et al.; delinquent property tax foreclosure sought for Jefferson Street, Salineville property.

County Treasurer, Lisbon, vs. Kenneth Gene Stefl Jr., state Route 154, Lisbon, et al.; delinquent property tax foreclosure sought for Pennsylvania Avenue, East Liverpool property.

County Treasurer, Lisbon, vs. Melanie Scott, North Middle Street, Columbiana, et al.; delinquent property tax foreclosure sought for North Middle Street, Columbiana property.

Roxannie Sterling, Grafton Road, Leetonia, and Robert Sterling, state Route 558, Leetonia; dissolution sought.

PNC Bank vs. Jeffrey Landsberger, Marion Avenue, East Palestine, et al.; mortgage foreclosure sought.

Docket Entries

NewRez LLC vs. Eric K. Smith, et al.; case dismissed.

Credit Acceptance Corp. vs. Haley Vint; $17,460 judgment granted to plaintiff.

Huntington National Bank vs. Margaret Wilkinson, et al.; foreclosure vacated, case dismissed.

Rocket Mortgage, LLC vs. Jordan Spencer, et al.; foreclosure dismissed.

Huntington National Bank vs. Krista Vallera, et al.; mortgage foreclosure ordered for Sprouse Road, Wellsville property.

U.S. Bank Trust National Association vs. Jeff Pazzelli, et al.; sheriff sale canceled, case stayed.

UMB Bank vs. Clara Guesman, et al.; case dismissed.

County Treasurer vs. Jeremy Gorby, et al.; delinquent property tax foreclosure ordered for Harrison Street, North Georgetown property.

County Treasurer vs. Donald Packner, et al.; Dale Pennsylvania Royalty LP dismissed as defendant.

County Treasurer vs. Donald Packner, et al.; CHK Utica LLC and Chesapeake Exploration dismissed as defendants.

County Treasurer vs. Anna Bell Moats, et al.; Wellsville property forfeited to state of Ohio, case dismissed.

County Treasurer vs. Robert Melott, et al.; payment plan entered, case stayed.

Jeremy Suiter and Ashley Suiter; dissolution granted.

Tawnya Nahar and Aaron Nahar; dissolution granted.

Tonya Cain vs. Matthew Cain; divorce granted.

Municipal

LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a preliminary/pretrial hearing was set July 17 for Steven Weyand, 32, Madison Avenue, Salineville, charged with felonious assault, a second-degree felony, and criminal damaging, a misdemeanor, for allegedly assaulting another man with some type of object in his hand on July 4 in Salineville, injuring the victim who received medical attention at hospitals in Salem and Canton. He also hit the windshield of a woman’s car on July 1 in Salineville.

Cases against Lee N. Givens, 36, East Taggart Street, East Palestine, were bound over to the county grand jury for fourth-degree felony theft and fifth-degree felonies of possession of drugs and breaking and entering. He was also fined $850 and sentenced to 45 days in jail, with credit for 13 days served, for criminal trespass, drug paraphernalia, two counts obstructing official business, misconduct at an emergency and driving under suspension. Givens was accused of breaking into a South Market Street property in East Palestine on May 5, stole drugs, had a meth pipe in his possession and lied to police about the whereabouts of a woman, who was found hiding in a vehicle next to him. He was also charged for a disturbance at an emergency road block on March 31 on East Taggart Street, East Palestine. The driving under suspension charge stemmed from a traffic stop on March 8 in East Palestine. The felony drug charge stemmed from his alleged possession of methamphetamine on Jan. 14 in East Palestine.

Justin Palmer, 43, Slippery Rock, Pa., was fined $750 and given a suspended 90-day jail term for engaging in prostitution and possessing criminal tools. He was ordered to perform 20 hours community service and complete a 12-hour education course. Palmer was accused of soliciting sexual activity in exchange for $140 from an undercover agent posing online as a prostitute and her adult daughter, then arriving in Salem for the meeting on Jan. 13.

William Polis, 40, Poland, was fined $750 and given a suspended 90-day jail term for engaging in prostitution and possessing criminal tools. He was ordered to perform 20 hours community service and complete a 12-hour education course. Polis responded to an undercover ad on a known prostitution website and arranged for sexual conduct with a female in exchange for $140, arriving in East Palestine on Nov. 10, 2022 for the meeting.

Randy Bolyard, 30, North Ellsworth Avenue, Salem, was fined $200 and sentenced to 180 days in jail, with 177 days suspended and credit for three days already served, for endangering children. She was ordered to complete 20 hours community service. Bolyard was accused of leaving her two children, ages 6 and 8 years old, alone at their home in Salem on March 31 while she went to her mother’s residence near Lisbon. The children had gone to a neighbor’s house pounding on the door because they didn’t know where their mother was.

Margot McHenry, 21, North Shady Lane, East Liverpool, was fined $250 and given a suspended 180-day jail term for assault, amended from domestic violence, She was ordered to complete 20 hours community service. McHenry punched another woman in the face and back of the head and grabbing her by the neck, throwing her on the couch and beating her with a set of keys on Oct. 5, 2022 in East Liverpool.

A court trial was set July 24 for Ryan Kost, 25, state Route 14, New Waterford, charged with failure to comply with the order or signal of a police officer for allegedly fleeing from a New Waterford property at a high rate of speed, refusing to stop for police on Feb. 5. A theft charge was dismissed related to a cell phone. Charges of assault and unlawful restraint were dismissed at the request of the prosecutor because the victim’s whereabouts were unknown. The incident happened in February in New Waterford.

A pretrial was set Oct. 5 for William E. Jones, 40, North Bloomfield, charged with engaging in prostitution and possessing criminal tools for allegedly responding to an undercover ad on a known prostitution website and arranging for sexual activity with a female in exchange for $100, arriving in East Palestine on June 4 for the meeting.

A preliminary/pretrial hearing was set Aug. 7 for Stephanie Corvin, 27, Salem Alliance Road, Salem, charged with fifth-degree felony unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, OVI first offense, OVI breath first offense and reasonable control. Corvin allegedly took a car without the owner’s permission and crashed it on July 7 at state Route 9 and Carey Road in Butler Township. The charge was a felony due to the victim being an elderly person.

A pretrial was set July 17 for Joseph Castelucci, 61, South Lincoln Avenue, Lisbon, charged with assault and criminal trespass for allegedly pushing a woman in Lisbon on July 10 and forcing his way into her apartment.

Gerald Gray, 33, was fined $250 and sentenced to 30 days in jail, with 27 days suspended and credit for three days served, for disorderly conduct, amended from domestic violence. A charge of criminal mischief was dismissed. He was ordered to complete 20 hours community service. On June 24 on Alliance Salem Road, Salem, Gray was accused of throwing and pushing a woman down the stairs on the front porch causing injury and also allegedly let the air out of the tires on her vehicle.

Valerie Barker, 38, Irish Ridge Road, East Liverpool, was fined $500 and sentenced to 90 days in jail, with 86 days suspended and credit for one day served, for obstructing official business, reduced from a felony to a misdemeanor. She was also ordered to complete 100 hours community service and have no weapons. Barker claimed a weapon investigators were asking about during a search of her residence on May 22 had been taken to a relative’s residence, but agents found the gun bolted under the kitchen counter. Liverpool Township Police and agents with the ATF had conducted a search at the residence on May 11 and seized multiple firearms, but then learned there were additional firearms.

Michael Fowler, 51, West Clark Street, East Palestine, was fined $300 and sentenced to 30 days in jail, with 28 days suspended and credit for two days served, for two counts disorderly conduct, amended from two counts domestic violence. He was ordered to complete 20 hours community service. Fowler threatened two people and struck them during a domestic on June 24 on West Clark Street, East Palestine.

A pretrial was set July 20 for Zachary Perry, 28, Cadmus Street, East Liverpool, charged with domestic violence for allegedly causing physical harm to a man on July 10 in East Liverpool.

Brandy Johnson, 50, South Park Circle, East Liverpool, was fined $150 for disorderly conduct, amended form theft, for using a 98-cent to scan 18 items totaling $135 at Calcutta Walmart on Feb. 25, 2022.

Samantha Scyoc, 26, Lexington Avenue, Salem, was fined $150 and given a suspended 90-day jail term for obstructing official business. She was ordered to complete 40 hours community service and take a parenting course. Scyoc was accused of denying anyone else was in an apartment on Prospect Street, Salem when police found a trespassed male hiding in a bedroom.

A pretrial was set Oct. 2 for Michael Miller, 66, Sarver, Pa., charged with operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol or drugs first offense, OVI breath first offense, and slow speed.

A pretrial was set Oct. 3 for Suzanna Feezle, 46, Enon Valley, Pa., charged with OVI second offense, OVI breath second offense, driving under suspension and headlights required.

A pretrial was set Oct. 3 for Amanda Schmelick, 37, Bolivar Road, Wellsville, charged with OVI first offense, OVI breath first offense, and marked lanes.

A pretrial was set Oct. 5 for Cordelia Black, 29, Warren, charged with OVI first offense, possessing marijuana and assured clear distance.

A pretrial was set Sept. 21 for Devin Lodge, 21, North 15th Street, Sebring, charged with traffic control devices, carrying concealed weapons, illegal use or possession of drug paraphernalia, headlights required, possession of drug paraphernalia, and three counts driving under suspension from various traffic stops. Lodge allegedly possessed a black box containing an unknown crystal-like substance while a passenger in a vehicle stopped in Salem on July 10, with K-9 Simon indicating to the odor of narcotics in the vehicle. During a traffic stop June 9 in Salem, Lodge had brass knuckles in his rear pocket after telling police he had no weapons and possessed an alleged marijuana pipe.

A pretrial was set Sept. 12 for Dyllon Pifer, 30, Warren, charged with possession of marijuana, possession of marijuana paraphernalia, OVI first offense and improper/expired registration.

A pretrial was set Oct. 10 for Traci Lamm, 47, Harvey Avenue, East Liverpool, charged with housing code violation buildings and structures, property maintenance requirements, deposit litter, garbage, trash or junk on adjacent property on alley, storage of furniture and storage of tires. The charges stem from alleged housing violations in East Liverpool at Harvey Avenue, with a written notice sent May 4.

A sentencing/restitution hearing was set Oct. 2 for Diane Dinch, 57, state Route 39, Wellsville, who pleaded no contest to criminal mischief for knocking over a display containing tanning lotions and destroying many due to her irate behavior at Turtle Beach Tanning, state Route 45, Lisbon on June 20.

A pretrial was set Oct. 5 for Melverino Jones, 33, St. Clair Avenue, East Liverpool, charged with theft for allegedly failing to scan and pay for several items totaling $94 from Calcutta Walmart on June 3, 2020.

A pretrial was set July 27 for Casey Carter, 31, East Liverpool Road, East Liverpool, charged with drug paraphernalia for allegedly possessing a pipe with chore boy with a burnt end on April 4 in East Liverpool.

Shannon Marie Johnson, 42, McDonald Street, East Liverpool, was fined $250 and sentenced to one day in jail, with credit for one day served, for drug paraphernalia for possessing glass pipes used for drug abuse, a scale and other contraband during a traffic stop on Nov. 28, 2022 in East Liverpool.

Robert W. Kennedy, 25, Haiti Road, Salineville, was fined $750 and sentenced to one day in jail, with credit for one day served, for failure to control, two counts driving under suspension, illegal plates, expired plates and unauthorized plate.

Isaac Reese, 42, Ashli Lane, Columbiana, was fined $300 and sentenced to 30 days in jail, with 27 days suspended and credit for three days served in a driver intervention program for reckless operation, amended from OVI, and speeding. His driver’s license was suspended for 180 days, with driving privileges granted.

Bobbi Lynne Stoddard, 51, Louise Avenue, East Liverpool, was fined $275 and given a suspended 30-day jail term for drug paraphernalia, loud exhaust, unauthorized plate and expired registration for possessing a burnt glass pipe and clear plastic baggy containing two clear crystals during a traffic stop May 5 in St. Clair Township.

A pretrial was set Oct. 3 for Christopher Craft, 29, Mill Street, Rogers, charged with driving under suspension and marked lanes.

A pretrial was set Sept. 28 for Ky’liah Finger, 24, Youngstown, charged with improper/expired registration.

Rebecca McComas, 50, Hillcrest Road, Wellsville, was fined $75 for lights required.

Robert Stoddard, 55, Cunningham Road, Salem, was fined $100 for speeding.

Larry Vance, 48, Pennsylvania Avenue, East Liverpool, was fined $180 for driving under suspension and improper registration.

A pretrial was set Sept. 28 for Jesus Medrano Garcia, 55, Salem Unity Road, Salem, charged with reasonable control.