Municipal

LISBON–A Salem man is facing possible charges in Columbiana County Municipal Court for striking a woman in an East Liverpool business.

A pretrial was set April 15 for Daniel Widger, 49, West Sixth Street, Salem, charged with assault and obstructing official business for allegedly striking a woman and subsequently refusing to identify himself to officers and claiming to be Mickey Mouse at Burger King in East Liverpool on Tuesday.

Jena Whittington, 33, 18th Street, Wellsville, was fined $550 for possession of drug abuse instruments, obstructing official business, and drug paraphernalia for failing to obey officers orders and possessing a loaded syringe, cut straw, and suspected narcotics during a traffic stop in East Liverpool on Aug. 20, 2025.

Al Phillips, 27, Wood Street, Lowellville, was fined $895 for possession of drug paraphernalia, OVI, driving under suspension, a marked lanes violation, and a seatbelt violation for possessing a glass smoking pipe with white burnt residue during a traffic stop in Madison Township Sunday.

Micah Butcher, 20, Beaver Springfield Road, Springfield, was fined $300 for failure to stop after an accident and assured clear distance ahead.

Andrew Sodergreen, 27, Cherry Valley Drive, Leetonia, was fined $250 for reckless operation amended from OVI. An additional charge of OVI and a charge of expired registration were dismissed.

Joshua Butler, 42, West Pine Lake Road, Salem, was fined $225 for application for certificate of title, use of unauthorized plate, and improper registration.

Darrell Wolf, 35, North Jefferson Street, Lisbon, was fined $200 for driving under suspension.

David McKinnon, 35, East Washington Street, Lisbon, was fined $150 for driving under suspension.

Michael Paterchak, 33, Melrose Avenue, Youngstown, was fined $150 for no operator’s license amended from driving under suspension.

Chad Collins, 39, North Market Street, Lisbon, was fined $150 for driving under suspension.

Frank Spada, 68, Monument Road, Canton, was fined $75 for an equipment violation amended from speeding.

Robert Borgeau, 33, Linwood, Akron, was fined $50 for speeding.

A jury trial was set April 9 for James Moore, 37, Prospect Street, Salem, charged with three counts of menacing for allegedly breaking the window of a man’s vehicle and threatening to assault a woman in East Liverpool on June 9, 2025. Moore was also fined $150 for driving under suspension.

A pretrial was set June 10 for Danny Shultz, 28, Cliff Drive, Salem, charged with obstructing official business for allegedly leaving a suspected drug location in a vehicle and leaving the vehicle behind a residence, walking away on foot, and denying that they had done so and that they were the occupants of the vehicle when contacted by officers in Salem on March 30.

A pretrial was set June 3 for Walter Fortney, 71, state Route 164, Leetonia, charged with violating a protection order for allegedly photographing the protected person in Leetonia on Tuesday.

A pretrial was set June 9 for Shawna Bodford, 43, North Fifth Street, Toronto, charged with possession of drug paraphernalia for allegedly possessing a pipe used for smoking methamphetamine and a container with suspected methamphetamine inside in Saint Clair Township Monday.

A pretrial was set June 3 for Montana Matheson, 25, North Beaver Street, Lisbon, charged with driving under suspension.

A pretrial was set June 10 for Michael Skrinjar, 43, School Road, Wellsville, charged with OVI and left of center.

A pretrial was set Jun 9 for Jeffrey Clark, 63, Depot Road, Salem, charged with OVI and a marked lanes violation.

A pretrial was set June 3 for John Byler, 23, Mayham Road, Carrollton charged with OVI and speeding.

A pretrial was set May 13, 20, for Rylee Johnson, Sebring, charged with failure to stop after an accident.

A Lisbon man was bound over to the grand jury Tuesday facing potential charges for obscenity involving minors.

Austin Bowers, 30, Depot Road, Lisbon, was bound over to the grand jury charged with second-degree felony pandering obscenity involving a minor for allegedly uploading a sexually graphic video of a pre-pubescent female juvenile and an adult male to Dropbox and a video of a female juvenile engaged in sexual acts with a male to X on Aug. 21 in East Palestine.

Javon Wesley, 30, Youngstown, was bound over the grand jury charged with second-degree felony strangulation and felonious assault, and fourth-degree felony disrupting public services for allegedly choking and punching a woman in the face, taking her phone to prevent her from calling 911 in East Liverpool, and forcing her to drive him home to Youngstown on Feb. 23.

George Feezle, 50, State Line Road, Enon Valley, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 180 days in jail, with 110 days suspended and credit for 70 days served and fined $350 for assault and criminal trespass for assisting another man in assaulting a person at their home in Salem and causing serious injury on Jan. 18.

Lisa Felekey, 58, Macrum Street, East Liverpool, was sentenced to 90 days in jail with 90 days suspended, 20 hours community service, fined $500, and ordered to pay $240 restitution to and have no further contact with the victim for assault for choking a woman, pulling her hair and throwing her to the ground in East Liverpool on Oct. 31.

Michael Merriman, 41, Haiti Road, Salineville, was fined $50 for disorderly conduct amended from menacing and a second charge of menacing was dismissed for chasing a man through the woods on Sept. 27.

Paul Smith, 31, Darlington Road, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 180 days in jail with 170 days suspended and credit for 5 days served, for two counts of endangering children, obstructing official business amended from obstructing justice, and OVI for allowing two male juveniles to leave his residence and play in the road naked without his knowledge in East Palestine on May 19 and failing to report to the police department as agreed and hiding from officers in a closet when they returned to arrest him.

Rodney Markids, 34, Georgetown Street Northeast, East Canton, was sentenced to 30 days in jail with 30 days suspended, 20 hours of community service, fined $200, and ordered to have no contact with the victim for telecommunications harassment amended from menacing, for repeatedly calling and texting a woman after begin told to stop contacting them on Aug. 4.

Patrick Conlon, 30, Bellaire Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was sentenced to 90 days in jail with 90 days suspended, 20 hours of community service, and fined $250 for possessing criminal tools, and a charge of engaging in prostitution was dismissed for arranging to meet with an undercover agent with the Mahoning Valley Human Trafficking Task Force in Unity Township for sexual conduct in exchange for $260 on June 28, and possessing the currency and the cellular device used to arrange the criminal act at that time.

Douglas Mariani, 71, Creekview Circle, Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 180 days in jail with 180 days suspended, 20 hours of community service, and fined $750 for possessing criminal tools, and engaging in prostitution for arranging to meet with an undercover agent with the Mahoning Valley Human Trafficking Task Force in East Palestine for sexual conduct in exchange for $140 on Dec. 26, and possessing the currency and the cellular device used to arrange the criminal act at that time.

Caitlin Dunn, 27, West Fourth Street, East Liverpool, was sentenced to 180 days in jail with 176 days suspended, and credit for four days served, 20 hours of community service, and fined $250 for falsification for claiming that a wanted person was not present in her East Liverpool residence, whom officers observed looking out of a window before being located running from the rear of the residence. After being read her Miranda rights Grant allegedly admitted that the wanted person had been in the residence since midnight and that she had told them police were outside on Oct. 12

Kayley Brandle, 35, North Union Avenue, Salem, was sentenced to seven days in jail and fined $200 for obstructing official business for leaving a suspected drug location in a vehicle and leaving the vehicle behind a residence, walking away on foot, and denying that they had done so and that they were the occupants of the vehicle when contacted by officers in Salem on March 30.

Payton Wilson, 27, Dresden Avenue, East Liverpool, was sentenced to 22 days in jail with credit for 22 days served and fined $600 for criminal trespass, possessing drug paraphernalia, and driving under suspension. The charge of criminal trespassing stems from an incident on Sept. 9 when Wilson entered a property she had previously been trespassed from, and the charge of possessing drug paraphernalia for possessing a glass pipe with burnt residue during a traffic stop in East Liverpool on Aug. 2.

Ricardo Gonzalez Jr., 36, Tuscawaras Street, Canton, was sentenced to 10 days in jail with credit for 10 days served and fined $150 for possessing drug paraphernalia for possessing a glass pipe with burnt residue, and a Crown Royal bag with suspected narcotics during a traffic stop in Elkrun Township on March 19.

Joshua Rzucidco, 24, Freedom Avenue, Alliance, was fined $200 for violating a protection order for emailing the protected person on Oct. 2 and calling them on Oct. 7.

Jeremy Csonka, 47, Indiana Avenue, Chester, West Virginia, was sentenced to two days in jail with credit for two days served and fined $200 for criminal damaging for knocking out the taillight of a vehicle in the parking lot of a business in East Liverpool on Oct. 4, 2017.

Ronnie White, 67, West Street, Salineville, was sentenced to 90 days in jail with 87 days suspended and fined $665 for OVI and turn signal violation.

Brian Light, 58, Lisbon Road, Lisbon, was fined $150 for driving under suspension and a charge of unauthorized plate was dismissed.

Brandi Buchanan, 40, Seventh Avenue, East Liverpool, was fined $100 for driving under suspension.

Clyde Hunt, 54, Saint Clair Avenue, East Liverpool, was fined $100 for driving under suspension.

Vincent Delaroza, 26, North Market Street, East Palestine, was fined $75 for driving under suspension and speeding.

Gloria Flaherty, 51, Birch Road, East Liverpool, was fined $75 for an equipment violation amended from driving under suspension.

Payden Chapman, 29, Thomas Road, Lisbon, was fined $75 for lighted lights required amended from texting while driving. Steven Ebore, 42, Glenwood Drive, Ambridge, Pennsylvania, was fined $50 for speeding.

Jacob Ward, 19, Holcomb Road, Ashtabula, was fined $50 for speeding.

A preliminary hearing and pretrial were set April 8 for Thomas Redman III, 43, Sprucevale Road, Rogers, charged with fourth-degree felony strangulation and misdemeanor domestic violence for allegedly striking a household member in the face and choking them causing abrasions and cuts to their neck area on Monday in East Liverpool.

A preliminary hearing was set April 8 for Robert Barrett, 41, West Ninth Street, East Liverpool, charged with second-degree felony burglary, and fifth-degree felony possessing criminal tools for allegedly entering a residence in East Liverpool on March 20, with a screwdriver in their possession with the intention of using it to commit a felony offense.

A pretrial was set April 13 for Glenn Bender, 50, Anderson Avenue, Wellsville, charged with cruelty to animals for allegedly failing to take two sick dogs for veterinary care before and leaving the bodies to decompose after they died. One dog was left in a doghouse where it died and in the early stages of decomposition “with maggots beginning to eat away at the flesh around the dog’s anus and facial orifices” and the second dog was found in a black garbage bag “in advanced stages of decomposition and barely identifiable,” with “hundreds of flies and maggots” in the bag.

A pretrial was set June 1 for Gerald Nicholson, 61, Violet Drive, Norvelt, Pennsylvania charged with engaging in prostitution and possessing criminal tools for allegedly arranging to meet with an undercover agent with the Mahoning Valley Human Trafficking Task Force in East Palestine for sexual conduct in exchange for $140 on Monday and possessing the currency and the cellular device used to arrange the criminal act at that time

A pretrial was set April 15 for Mark Oiler, 24, East Liverpool, charged with aggravated menacing and operating a vehicle without a license for allegedly sending a woman threatening messages stating that he was going to short her after a dispute in Wellsville on March 22.

A pretrial was set May 5 for Lisa Goodrich, 31, Second Street, Lake Milton, charged with driving while texting.

A pretrial was set May 5 for Mary Trunick, 74, Riverview Road, Freedom, Pennsylvania, charged with reasonable control.

Common Pleas

New Cases

County Treasurer, Lisbon, vs. Eric C. Ostrander, state Route 7, Columbiana, et al.; delinquent property tax foreclosure sought for state Route 7, Columbiana property.

Credit Acceptance Corporation, Southfield, Mich., vs. Robert W. Brewer, Lincoln Avenue, East Liverpool, et al.; collection sought of alleged $18,672 debt.

Accelerated Inventory Management, LLC, Sarasota, Fla. vs. Lynette Earl, Carrie Lane, Leetonia; collection sought of alleged $17,996 debt.