Common Pleas

New Cases

County Treasurer, Lisbon, vs. The Kohler Family Revocable Living Trust, Deanna Kohler, Trustee, Pueblo Lane, Columbiana, et al.; delinquent property tax foreclosure sought for Pennsylvania Avenue Extension, East Liverpool property.

County Treasurer, Lisbon, vs. Dwayne Rupert Jr., Peace Valley Road, New Waterford, et al.; delinquent property tax foreclosure sought for Peace Valley Road, New Waterford property.

Dedra Ours, Chester, W.Va., vs. Dennie Ours IV, Old Fredericktown Road, East Liverpool; divorce sought.

Kenneth Dean, Waterford Road, New Waterford, et al. vs. Lori Ann Lipp, Bell Road, Lisbon, et al.; damages sought for personal injury and property damage claims from 2022 traffic accident.

Docket Entries

Carrington Mortgage Services LLC vs. Alexander Stevenson, et al.; case stayed.

Blaine Fields and Barbara Ann Fields vs. Ronald Greathouse, et al.; judgment for defendant/cross-claimant vacated, with cross-claim dismissed.

Rocket Mortgage, LLC vs. Candy McClish, et al.; mortgage foreclosure ordered for Oliver Street, East Liverpool property.

Mariner Finance, LLC vs. Kevin Selby and Stephanie Selby; $4,200 judgment granted to plaintiff.

City of East Palestine, Ohio, vs. William R. Meek; $9,729 judgment granted to plaintiff.

Maria Warren vs. Adam Newbold, et al.; Warren’s complaint dismissed with prejudice and Newbold’s counterclaim dismissed with prejudice.

Ashley Black and Daniel Black; dissolution granted.

County Treasurer vs. Shane Sylvester, et al.; delinquent property taxes paid, case dismissed.

Grand Jury

LISBON — Jakob Bell, 34, Campbell Road, Hanoverton, was served Monday with a secret indictment issued by the Columbiana County Grand Jury for aggravated possession of drugs, a fifth-degree felony, for allegedly possessing methamphetamine on March 16.

Court News

LISBON — An East Palestine man who submitted altered claims for monetary reimbursement to Norfolk Southern related to last year’s train derailment and chemical fire entered a guilty plea in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court.

James Chadwick Bollinger, 34, West Martin Street, pleaded guilty to fourth-degree felony grand theft for allegedly presenting altered Holiday Inn invoices to Norfolk Southern totaling $12,451 and being reimbursed Sept. 19, 2023.

He’ll face sentencing on Nov. 4.

Also in Common Pleas Court:

— Dana Inherst, 33, Avondale Street, East Liverpool, was placed under community control for three years and ordered to serve up to six months at the Eastern Ohio Correction Center for third-degree felony domestic violence. He was also ordered to have no contact with the victim. Inherst forcefully grabbed hold of a woman and ripped the necklace from her neck and then slammed her to the ground on March 23 in East Liverpool.

— Joseph Quinn, 23, Orchard Street, East Liverpool, was placed on an intervention plan for three years and must serve up to six months at the Eastern Ohio Correction Center after pleading guilty to two counts of theft, a fifth-degree felony, misdemeanor theft and misdemeanor misuse of credit cards. He was accused of stealing wallets from two separate vehicles in East Liverpool on Feb. 29 and using the bank card of one victim at Main Land Gas Station. One of the theft charges dealt with $169 taken from one of the victims. The sentence was ordered served at the same time as the treatment plan ordered for a 2023 drug case against Quinn.

— Darnell Jackson, 21, Youngstown, was sentenced to six months in prison for a lesser offense of complicity to possession of fentanyl-related compound, a fifth-degree felony. Charges of aggravated possession of drugs and possession of heroin were dismissed. Jackson possessed fentanyl on July 8, 2022. The prison term was ordered served at the same time as a sentence for two Mahoning County cases.

— Holly Keyes, 36, last known address Maple Street, East Liverpool, was placed under community control for two years for fifth-degree felony possession of cocaine and third-degree felony tampering with evidence for possessing cocaine and tampering with evidence on April 21, 2018.

— Todd McClain, 47, Youngstown, was ordered to complete a term at the Eastern Ohio Correction Center, normally up to six months, after violating the terms of his treatment plan for possession of a fentanyl-related compound, a fifth-degree felony, for possessing fentanyl on Sept. 19, 2021. His treatment plan was terminated.

— Brittany Landacre, 30, Aten Avenue, Wellsville, must serve up to six months at the Eastern Ohio Correction Center for violating the terms of her intervention plan which will continue for a fifth-degree felony breaking and entering for entering an unoccupied residence through a window on May 4, 2023 in Salineville. She was also ordered to participate in drug court.

Municipal

LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a preliminary/pretrial hearing was set Sept. 19 for Gloria Sosack, 37, Boring Lane, East Liverpool, charged with fourth-degree felony burglary and misdemeanors of theft, aggravated menacing and two counts of criminal damaging for multiple cases and incidents.

Sosack allegedly walked into an East Liverpool residence without permission and stole two glass lamp shades that were later found busted into pieces outside the property on Aug. 8, leading to the felony burglary charge and one of the criminal damaging counts. On July 24, she allegedly caused at least $5,000 worth of damage to several items, including a gaming computer at an East Liverpool residence. She also allegedly threatened to hit the victim with a baseball bat. Sosack recently allegedly stole two items valued at $32 and hid them in her book bag at the East Liverpool Giant Eagle, with video footage showing the thefts.

Emily Patchin, 20, Summit Street, Salem, was fined $500 and sentenced to 180 days in jail with 170 days suspended and credit for seven days served, leaving a balance of three days still to serve in jail for misdemeanor assault, amended from fourth-degree felony assault on an officer, and misdemeanors of domestic violence and resisting arrest. She was ordered to complete 30 hours community service. Patchin got into a physical altercation with a man while intoxicated, pushing and scratching him, leaving marks on his left rib cage. When being taken into custody, she began to fight with officers, refusing to enter the cruiser and kicking her feet preventing officers from shutting the door, and kicking an officer in the face.

A misdemeanor assault charge was dismissed against David Price, 53, Chester, W.Va., per the prosecutor because the alleged victim’s whereabouts were unknown. Price originally had a second-degree felony felonious assault charge for the incident bound over to the county grand jury, but the case was transferred back to Municipal Court as a misdemeanor assault. Price was accused of allegedly smashing things in a house in Wellsville and striking another man on the leg with a hammer while he was attempting to stop Price on April 7.

A pretrial was set Sept. 16 for Christian Pilares Moyohuilca, 39, Knox School Road, Homeworth, charged with domestic violence for allegedly causing household members to believe he would cause imminent physical harm to a juvenile on Sept. 9 on Knox School Road, Homeworth.

A pretrial was set Sept. 19 for Michael Dunlap, 47, West School Road, East Rochester, charged with receiving stolen property for allegedly having a stolen ashtray in his possession from a home he was housesitting between April 26 and May 25 in West Township.

Charges of criminal damaging, criminal trespass and assault were dismissed without prejudice against William McFarland Jr., 33, Prospect Street, Salem, due to the state being unable to subpoena the alleged victim. On March 1 in Salem, he was allegedly using a Chevy Trailblazer to move his camper he was illegally without permission storing on the neighbors’ property, causing damage to the property, his camper and vehicle. On May 17 in Salem, he allegedly assaulted a man by ripping the gauge out of his ear and also assaulted a juvenile. He was fined $150 for use of unauthorized plate.

James L. Wilson, 57, Clark Avenue, Wellsville, was fined $250 and sentenced to 180 days in jail, with 160 days suspended and credit for 20 days served, for domestic violence. He was ordered to complete 20 hours community service, to have no contact with the victim and possess no firearms or ammunition. Wilson grabbed a woman by the shoulders and shoved her in the back of the couch after an argument, and also threatened to kill her on Aug. 12 in Wellsville.

Paul Robert Alexander, 52, Farmdale, was fined $750 and given a suspended 90-day jail term for engaging in prostitution and possessing criminal tools. Alexander was ordered to complete 20 hours community service and a 12-hour education course. He was accused of responding to an undercover ad on a known prostitution website and arranging for sexual activity with a female in exchange for $140 and traveling to East Palestine on July 4, 2023 for the meeting.

Roman Dariychuk, 38, McCallister Road, Lisbon, was fined $350 and sentenced to 13 days in jail, with credit for 13 days served, for obstructing official business and two counts of disorderly conduct. Dariychuk was blocking cars from being able to pass at the intersection of Fairfield Avenue and Metz Road on Aug. 28 and was screaming at people in a driveway, where Columbiana police found him. He ran away from police and was found in a back yard on Fairfield Avenue lying on the ground and was placed into custody after a brief struggle.

Joshua Hilberry, 30, McDonald, Pa., was fined $50 and given a suspended 30-day jail term for disorderly conduct amended from assault for assaulting another man, causing significant bruising, swelling and lacerations to his face on Dec. 27, 2019 in Unity Township.

Dalton McKinnon, 23, Lacroft Avenue, East Liverpool, was fined $450 and sentenced to six days in jail, with credit for six days served, for theft, criminal trespass and possession of drug abuse instrument. McKinnon was seen on surveillance footage taking candy off of the shelves at Nikki’s Market and placing the candy in his pants pockets on June 2. He fled before police arrived. On June 27, he was found inside a posted condemned house in East Liverpool. On May 21, he possessed a syringe in East Liverpool.

Alicia Sue Board, 40, Irondale, was fined $200 and sentenced to 60 days in jail, with 59 days suspended, leaving one day to serve in jail for theft and possessing criminal tools. She was ordered to complete 20 hours community service. On Sept. 5 at the Calcutta Walmart, she used a clearance tag for $2 and scanned the $2 bar code multiple times instead of using the correct bar code on 19 items, failing to pay for 19 items valued at $289.

A pretrial was set Nov. 19 for Patricia Craven, 44, Duquesne Street, Columbiana, charged with endangering children for allegedly allowing a juvenile to fight with another juvenile who was placed in headlock and punched repeatedly during a disturbance on Aug. 25 in Columbiana.

A pretrial was set Dec. 10 for Brandon Lee Jones, 23, West Eighth Street, East Liverpool, charged with persistent disorderly conduct for allegedly walking in the middle of Jefferson Street in East Liverpool, impeding the flow of traffic, after being told by police to stay on the sidewalk on Sept. 9.

Toby Hornbeck, 50, St. Clair Avenue, East Liverpool, was fined $150 for drug paraphernalia for possessing a digital scale with white residue during a traffic stop on June 6 in East Liverpool.

Rickey Smalley, 62, state Route 644, Kensington, was found now in compliance, with a $250 fine still suspended for a health code violation related to a sewer hookup. No further action was required. Smalley had been accused of failing to connect to an accessible sanitary sewer system as required by a Columbiana County health district board order on March 16, 2022.

A pretrial was set Nov. 19 for Carlos Zanders and Allison Zanders, no ages listed, both Holliday Street, East Liverpool, each charged with six counts of failure to file city income tax return for allegedly failing to file East Liverpool city income tax returns from 2019 through 2024.

A pretrial was set Nov. 19 for Moses Zanders, 37, Pennsylvania Avenue, East Liverpool, charged with failure to pay city income tax and five counts of failure to file city income tax return for allegedly failing to remit payment in 2019 for East Liverpool city income tax and for failing to file city income tax returns for East Liverpool from 2020 through 2024.

A pretrial was set Dec. 12 for Samantha Dicello, 36, West Main Street, East Palestine, charged with operating a vehicle impaired first offense, OVI breath first offense, reasonable control and no seat belt.

Kristopher Sell, 39, Youngstown, was fined $925 and sentenced to 90 days in jail, with 87 days suspended and credit for three days served in a driver intervention program, for OVI and reasonable control. Another OVI count was dismissed. His driver’s license was suspended for 180 days and he was ordered to complete 30 hours community service.

A pretrial was set Nov. 18 for Tammy Reidy, 53, Bacon Avenue, East Palestine, charged with OVI first offense, no seat belt and reasonable control.

A pretrial was set Dec. 12 for Chad Hiles, 38, West School Street, Salem, charged with OVI third offense, OVI breath third offense, driving under suspension and speeding.

A pretrial was set Nov. 19 for Austin Kimmel, 26, state Route 165, East Palestine, charged with OVI first offense and loud exhaust.

Joseph Rzucidlo, 54, state Route 172, Lisbon, was fined $50 for no license plate amended from one way traffic.

Rudi McClain, 59, Boardman, was fined $30 for expired tag, with a charge of traffic control devices dismissed.

Shawn Drass, 42, Monroe Township, Pa., was fined $300 for failure to stop and traffic control device.

A driving under suspension charge was dismissed against Joseph Dorsey, 43, Clark Avenue, Wellsville.

Logan Stich, 23, McDonald, Pa., was fined $50 for speeding.

Jonah Mitchell, 21, state Route 558, Salem, was fined $75 for speeding.