Common Pleas

New Cases

Waverly Wilson, Steubenville, and Dwayne Milewski, Moore Avenue, East Liverpool; dissolution sought.

Chadeya Fox, Stratton, and Ryan Fox, Holiday Street, East Liverpool; dissolution sought.

Andrea Cutrone, Colliers, W.Va., vs. Jose Miguel Rodriguez Nieves and Jose M.Rodriguez doing business as JR Tire & Auto Service, both Youngstown, and Susan Liepold, Hickory, Pa.; damages sought for personal injury claim from 2023 traffic crash in Columbiana County.

Linear Mortgage LLC, Sarasota, Fla., vs. Ruby Weymouth, Watterson Avenue, East Liverpool, et al.; mortgage foreclosure sought for Watterson Avenue, East Liverpool property.

Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, Greenville, S.C., vs. Jamie Smith, Kron Elle Lane, Beloit, et al.; mortgage foreclosure sought for Columbiana County property.

Fifth Third Bank, Cincinnati vs. Charlotte Powell, Southeast Boulevard, Salem, et al.; mortgage foreclousure sought for Columbiana County property.

Gregory Dray, Long Church Road, East Liverpool, vs. Nationwide Property & Casualty Insurance Company, Columbus; damages sought for breach of contract claim over denial of insurance claim for 2023 fire loss.

Ford Motor Credit Company LLC, Colorado Springs, Colo. vs. William A. Brown Jr. Forbes Road, Wellsville; collection sought of alleged $14,362 debt.

Docket Entries

Monica Ramser and Clara Ramser; dissolution granted.

Brown Valley Farm LLC, et al. vs. Encino Energy LLC, et al.; case referred to mediation.

CitiBank vs. Donald McGrath, et al.; judgment vacated, case dismissed.

Lakeview Loan Servicing LLV vs. Stephanie Lambert, et al.; judgment vacated, case dismissed.

MidFirst Bank vs. Sarah Standish, et al.; case stayed.

LISBON — A Salem man already serving time for another case from February 2024 was sentenced to 18 months in prison for grabbing a woman by the neck and hitting her last November.

Donald C. Fiore, 58, North Ellsworth Avenue, Salem, appeared for sentencing recently in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court for third-degree felony domestic violence and fourth-degree felony strangulation. He was accused of grabbing a woman by the neck and squeezing, then striking her, causing a laceration on her lip and red marks to her neck, then throwing her to the ground in Salem on Nov. 28, 2024.

The prison term was ordered served at the same time as the 12-month prison term he received in May for third-degree felony domestic violence for an incident on Feb. 9, 2024.

Also in Common Pleas Court:

— John Kolcun, 61, Warren, was sentenced to seven months in prison for attempted tampering with evidence, a fourth-degree felony, along with fifth-degree felony aggravated possession of drugs and misdemeanor illegal use or possession of drug paraphernalia. He received credit for 15 days served. Kolcun was accused of trying to hide a meth pipe after being placed under arrest for another charge on June 14 in Columbiana and also possessed methamphetamine.

— Sarah Smith, 37, Park Boulevard, East Liverpool, was ordered to serve up to six months at the Eastern Ohio Correction Center in Lisbon for violating the terms of her intervention plan for aggravated possession of drugs, a fifth-degree felony. She possessed methamphetamine on Nov. 25, 2021.

— Tiffany Wooley, 38, East Liverpool Road, East Liverpool, was placed under community control for 18 months for two counts of violating a protection order, a fifth-degree felony, for violating protection orders on May 30, 2024 and on Aug. 5, 2024.

— John Dennis Lanam, 45, 10th Street, Wellsville, pleaded guilty to aggravated possession of drugs, a fifth-degree felony, for possessing methamphetamine on April 20, 2024. Sentencing was set for Sept. 22.