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New Cases

Derick Scott Jackson, Washington Street, West Point, vs. Angela Marie Jackson, Columbia Avenue, East Liverpool; divorce sought.

Kyle Hutchison, Market Street, East Liverpool, vs. Cheyenne Hutchison, Sugar Hill, Ga.; divorce sought.

2024 Dayton LLC, Tarzana, Calif., vs. D&E Legacy Group LLC, Austintown, et al.; mortgage foreclosure sought for Clark Avenue, Wellsville property.

Numerica Credit Union, Spokane, Wash., vs. Sarah Nelson, Newgarden Avenue, Salem; collection sought of alleged $16,879 debt.

Discover Bank, Columbus, vs. Doug Holmes, Wellsville; collection sought of alleged $15,801 debt.

Seven Seventeen Credit Union, Inc., Warren, vs. Michael McLaughlin, state Route 558, Leetonia; collection sought of alleged $15,398 debt plus $279 interest.

Docket Entries

NTL Collegiate Student Loan Trust vs. Sheena Spooner; judgment revived for $30,907 plus $26,348 interest against defendant.

Julie McDougall vs. Tim Hephner; case settled and dismissed.

Seven Seventeen Credit Union, Inc. vs. Timothy Harrigan; $18,237 judgment plus $638 interest granted to plaintiff, with execution of judgment stayed pending completion of payments.

Cathalene Endsley and Tyler Endsley; dissolution granted.

County Treasurer vs. Adam Newbold, et al.; delinquent property taxes paid, case dismissed.

County Treasurer vs. James McKinnon Jr., et al.; payment plan entered, case stayed.

Grand Jury

LISBON — The Columbiana County Sheriff’s Office served three indictments Tuesday that were issued by the county grand jury, with two dating back to 2023.

Sarah Maze, 45, Chester, W.Va., was charged with possession of cocaine, a fifth-degree felony, for allegedly possessing cocaine on March 6, 2022.

Kelly Shafer, 42, Imperial, Pa., was charged with two counts of nonsupport of dependents, a fifth-degree felony, for allegedly failing to pay child support for two children from July 5, 2020 to July 3, 2022.

Christopher Bowersock, 42, Camelot Drive, Columbiana, was charged just this month with possession of a fentanyl-related compound for allegedly possessing fentanyl on Dec. 29, 2023.

Court News

LISBON — A former Newton Falls man listed as homeless in East Liverpool who was accused of soliciting sex while HIV positive entered guilty pleas for charges in two separate indictments.

Brenston Thompkins, 29, pleaded guilty recently in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court to third-degree felonies of engaging in solicitation after a positive HIV test, attempted felonious assault and tampering with evidence, along with a fourth-degree felony of trespass in a habitation when a person is present or likely to be present.

Sentencing was set for April 17. Charges of fifth-degree felony possessing criminal tools and misdemeanor engaging in prostitution will be dismissed. Thompkins was accused of responding to an undercover ad on a known prostitution website and arranging to have sexual acts with a female in exchange for methamphetamine, traveling to East Palestine for the meeting on Nov. 10, 2023. Thompkins was HIV positive and had HIV medicine in his possession.

The charge for trespassing stemmed from Dec. 13, 2023 when he knocked an air conditioner out of a window, reached in and unlocked the front door of an East Liverpool residence, trespassing in a woman’s apartment, according to a court affidavit.

Also in Common Pleas Court:

— Jerry Thompson, 39, Youngstown, was placed under community control for three years and ordered to spend up to six months in a program at the Eastern Ohio Correction Center in Wintersville for charges of attempted burglary, a fourth-degree felony, fifth-degree felony breaking and entering and misdemeanors of theft, criminal mischief, and illegal use or possession of drug paraphernalia. Thompson was accused of breaking into the Spinal Care Chiropractic Center in St. Clair Township on Nov. 8, 2023 and stealing a towel. A glass pipe used to smoke methamphetamine was left on the front counter of the business.

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