Municipal
LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a case against Donna Jean Potts, 35, Avondale Street, East Liverpool, was bound over to the county grand jury for a second-degree felony charge of burglary and misdemeanor charges of arson and assault for allegedly climbing into a person’s window in East Liverpool and using a propane torch to destroy several items in their home and striking the person on the head with the torch on Feb. 26.
Potts was also sentenced to 20 days in jail, with credit for 10 days served, leaving 10 days left to serve, for illegal use or possession of drug paraphernalia and criminal trespass for two separate incidents. Potts was found on someone else’s property without permission on Hammond School Road, Wellsville, on Sept. 16, 2023. Evidence at the scene allegedly came back with her DNA on it after testing. She was also found with a piece of glass heavily coated with a white powder/crystal-like substance, a cut straw, and a broken glass smoking pipe burned with residue during a traffic stop in Columbiana on April 20.
A case against David Adams, 45, Garner Avenue, East Liverpool, was bound over to the county grand jury for charges of third-degree felony having weapons under disability, obstructing official business, and resisting arrest for allegedly resisting a lawful arrest in East Liverpool on April 19 and dropping a handgun while fleeing on foot.
Kaden Desellem, 21, Black Road, Lisbon, was fined $1,000 and sentenced to 180 days in jail, with 100 days suspended and credit for 40 days served, leaving 40 days left to serve, for two counts of aggravated menacing, domestic violence, resisting arrest, and intimidation. On March 8, Desellem assaulted and threatened another person and threatened a Columbiana County Sheriff’s Office deputy when asking him to exit the residence on Black Road in Lisbon. On March 9, Desellem actively resisted arrest in Lisbon. On March 18 in Salineville, Desellem took another person’s gun and fired it into a sliding glass patio door, breaking it, and threatened to kill himself.
Mary Beth Riggs, 33, Sophia Street, East Liverpool, was fined $200 and sentenced to 90 days in jail, with 90 days suspended, leaving zero days left to serve, for theft for failing to scan and pay for 36 items totaling $121.82 at the Calcutta Walmart on July 16, 2023.
A pretrial was set May 13 for Richard Hoyt, 53, listed as homeless in East Liverpool, charged with obstructing official business and domestic violence for attempting to flee from a domestic violence incident where a woman was screaming at a residence in East Liverpool on April 28, forcing police to tase him.
Justin Buckel, 32, Dakota Street, East Liverpool, was sentenced to 180 days in jail, with 180 days suspended, leaving zero days left to serve, for theft for stealing a Milwaukee socket and ratchet set from Ace Hardware in St. Clair Township on March 21. Buckel was also ordered to perform 40 hours of community service.
Eugene Williams, 83, state Route 45, Lisbon, was fined $200 and sentenced to 30 days in jail, with 30 days suspended, leaving zero days left to serve, for aggravated menacing, amended from disorderly conduct, for attempting to withdraw $80,000 from his bank account at Chase Bank in St. Clair Township on June 5, 2023. When the bank teller told him he didn’t have that much in his account, he said “he would be back with a gun to get $80,000 one way or another.”
A pretrial was set May 16 for Carolyn Thomas, 41, Pope Street, East Liverpool, charged with two counts of personating an officer, for allegedly fraudulently deceiving a couple into thinking she was a “social worker for children’s services” and convincing them that they were in the process of adopting a baby, even bringing an actual baby for them to hold and believe they would be adopting, in East Liverpool in 2023.
Patricia Reese, 57, Main Street, Leetonia, was fined $100 for disorderly conduct, amended from domestic violence, for causing harm to another person in Leetonia on Jan. 11.
A pretrial was set June 27 for Audrea Farnsworth, 47, West Seventh Street, East Liverpool, charged with criminal endangerment for allegedly throwing a rock and breaking an upstairs window in a man’s home in East Liverpool on April 24.
Ian Pagan, 18, Youngstown, was fined $500 and sentenced to 180 days in jail, with 178 days suspended and credit for two days served, leaving zero days left to serve, for improperly handling of a firearm in motor vehicle and possessing a defaced firearm for having a 22 caliber firearm with the serial number scratched off in his possession during a traffic stop in Columbiana on Oct. 28, 2023.
Amy Harmicar, 38, Goshen Road, Salem, was sentenced to 122 days in jail for assault, amended from domestic violence, for striking a man with a floor lamp and attempting to strike another person with the lamp at a residence in Salem on Jan. 7.
A motion hearing was set July 16 for Lauren Paterson, Beacon Light Road, Lisbon, charged with having weapons while intoxicated, improper handling of a firearm in a motor vehicle, and operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol or drugs- first offense. Paterson allegedly possessed marijuana paraphernalia, a prescription bottle with a pill and a snort straw, along with a firearm on Aug. 10 during a traffic stop in Columbiana.
Philip Kelley, 36, North Broadway, Salem, was fined $1,175 and sentenced to 180 days in jail, with 177 days suspended and credit for three days served upon completion of a driver intervention program (DIP), leaving zero days left to serve, for OVI- first offense, failure to stop after an accident, and operating a motor vehicle without a valid license. Kelley was also ordered to perform 40 hours of community service and his driver’s license was suspended for one year with privileges.
Kristen Pallozzi, 34, Lowellville, was fined $1,120 and sentenced to 90 days in jail, with 87 days suspended and credit for three days served upon completion of DIP, leaving zero days left to serve, for physical control, amended from OVI- first offense, traffic control devices, and attempt to commit an offense.
Jeffrey Sigurani, 23, Youngstown, was fined $250 and sentenced to 30 days in jail, with 30 days suspended, leaving zero days left to serve, for criminal mischief. A charge of littering from a vehicle was dismissed. Sigurani was also ordered to perform 40 hours of community service. On Jan. 17 in Columbiana, Sigurani threw four Amazon packages from his van into a wooded area on Metz Road, Columbiana. The affidavit said that prior to discarding the packages, he allegedly scanned them to make it appear he could not deliver them on the victim’s Amazon account.
A pretrial was set May 13 for Barry Ours, 49, Calcutta Smithferry Road, East Liverpool, charged with OVI- first offense, operating a motor vehicle without a valid license, and left of center.
A pretrial was set June 27 for Holly Ann Baker, 23, Summit Drive, Salineville, charged with drug paraphernalia for allegedly having a cut straw with white powder residue and a glass pipe commonly used to smoke crack cocaine in her possession at the Calcutta Walmart on April 24.
A pretrial was set July 23 for Julie Underwood, 46, Maine Blvd., East Liverpool, charged with possession of drug abuse instrument, drug paraphernalia, left of center, and rest tinted glass for allegedly having a glass pipe commonly used to smoke methamphetamine and two syringes in her possession during a traffic stop in St. Clair Township on April 24.
A pretrial was set June 24 for Kaelynn Duncan, 30, Commerce Street, Wellsville, charged with OVI- first offense, driving under suspension/restriction, and speeding.
A pretrial was set June 25 for Michael McKinnon, no age listed, West Sixth Street, East Liverpool, charged with six counts of failure to pay city income tax return for allegedly failing to file city income tax returns for East Liverpool from 2017 through 2023.
