Common Pleas

NEW CASES

Brian J. Spier, Dairy Lane, East Liverpool, vs. Kashmere D. Spier, North Market Street, Lisbon; divorce sought.

Martha Dray, Campbell Boulevard, Wellsville, vs. Donald Board, Campbell Boulevard, Wellsville; divorce sought.

DOCKET ENTRIES

Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC vs. Julie L. Carlisle; mortgage foreclosure ordered for Cleveland Street, Salem property.

Ohio Laser, Inc. vs. Gregg Simpson; defense motion for change of venue denied.

Bobbiejo McEwen-Worley and Stephen Worley; dissolution granted.

Ashlie Lynn Williams and Jesse Lee Williams; dissolution granted.

Court News

LISBON — An East Liverpool man accused of engaging in sexual activity with a 14-year-old child last year was sentenced to an indefinite term of four to six years in prison for second-degree felony sexual battery.

Robert M. Pressley, 37, Manor Lane, appeared for sentencing in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court. He received credit for 43 days already served in jail and was designated a Tier III sex offender who must register his information for the sex offender registration every 90 days for life once he gets out of prison.

A charge of third-degree felony unlawful sexual conduct with a minor was dismissed.

Pressley was accused of engaging in sexual activity with the child victim on June 29, 2025.

Also in Common Pleas Court:

— Ronald L. Knight, 52, state Route 45, Wellsville, was placed under community control for three years for a lesser-included offense of domestic violence, a fourth-degree felony, originally a third-degree felony, with credit for two days served in jail. He was accused of striking a woman with an open hand several times and spitting on her face on Aug. 26, 2025 in Wellsville, with at least two or more past convictions for domestic violence on his record.

— Joshua C. Board, 36, Saline Street, Irondale, was sentenced to 12 months in prison and fined $5,000 after pleading guilty to aggravated possession of drugs, a third-degree felony, with credit for 15 days served in jail. A fifth-degree felony of aggravated possession of drugs was dismissed. Board possessed methamphetamine on May 12, 2024.

— Nicholas Lee Weyand, 37, Dewey Avenue, East Liverpool, was sentenced to 12 months in prison for illegal conveyance of drugs of abuse onto the grounds of a specified governmental facility, a third-degree felony, and possession of a fentanyl-related compound, a fifth-degree felony. Weyand was accused of possessing fentanyl and trying to take drugs into a detention facility on May 27, 2024.

Municipal

LISBON– An East Palestine man is facing fines for permitting underage consumption.

Michael Schnelle, 38, Park Avenue, East Palestine, was sentenced to 180 days in jail with 180 days suspended, 20 hours of community service, and fined $250 for permitting underage consumption and offenses involving underage persons for purchasing alcoholic beverages for a juvenile and permitting other juveniles to drink alcoholic beverages at his residence on Nov. 2.

Nicole Dean, 44, Benton Road, Salem, was sentenced to 30 days in jail with 30 days suspended, 20 hours of community service, and fined $150 for possession of drug paraphernalia for having plastic bag and cut straw with residue for use with narcotics in her vehicle during a traffic stop in Salem on March 5.

Richard Haught II, 56, Sunnyside Street, East Liverpool, was fined $3,000 suspended on condition of completing a payment plan for back taxes and paying all future taxes in a timely manner, for six counts of failure to file a city income tax return, for failing to file East Liverpool city income tax returns for tax years 2019 through 2024.

Ronni Delguzzo, 31, Tenth Street, Wellsville, was sentenced to 90 days in jail with 90 days suspended, 20 hours community service, and fined $250 for complicity to commit theft for helping a man to conceal items from a St. Clair Township business with the purpose of stealing them on Feb. 21.

Christian Bell, 30, Quail Hollow, Massillon, was sentenced to 69 days in jail with credit for 69 days served, ordered to pay $500 restitution to the victim, and fined $200 for two counts of theft for stealing a man’s bag containing approximately $500, his house keys, and a wallet in East Liverpool on Dec. 3, and for stealing a box of chicken wings valued at $10 from an East Liverpool business on Dec. 16.

Dustin Wright, 29, Berry Road, Kensington, was sentenced to 90 days in jail with 90 days suspended and 20 hours of community service, ordered to have no contact with the victim and fined $250 for violating a protection order, and a charge of disorderly conduct was dismissed, for being within 500 feet of the protected person at a Salem Business on March 27.

Kimberly Clay-Carillo, 57, South Maple Street, Orwell, was sentenced to 60 days in jail with 60 days suspended, 40 hours of community service, and fined $150 for soliciting prostitution for arranging to meet with an undercover agent from the Mahoning Valley Human Trafficking Task Force in Unity Township for sexual conduct in exchange for currency on March 2. Kayde Banister, 20, Cream Ridge Road, Lisbon, was fined $250 for OVI amended from underage OVI, and a taillight violation.

Samuel Davis, 25, Cricket Lane, Columbiana, was fined $615 for OVI and expired registration.

A pretrial was set May 27 for Travis Newman, 37, West Main Street, East Palestine, charged with domestic violence for allegedly shoving a woman into a cabinet and wrapping his hands around her neck leaving red marks and bruising in East Palestine on May 18.

A pretrial was set July 28 for Tyler McClish, 29, Ruble Street, Hanoverton, charged with violation of a protection order and menacing. The charge of menacing stems from incidents in Hanoverton when he allegedly threw a woman’s furniture off her porch and threatened to physically harm the woman, her roommate and cats on March 7, and allegedly threw a rock at a woman’s car damaging the trunk on March 8. The charge of violating a protection order stems from an incident in Hanoverton on April 18 when he allegedly made eye contact with the protected person and called her an obscene name.

A pretrial was set May 27 for Victo Oca, 34, Watson Street, Painesville, charged with criminal trespass for allegedly entering FCI Elkton’s property without permission and throwing illegal contraband onto their grounds on May 9.

A pretrial was set June 22 for Erica Sprankle, 42, state Route 151, Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, charged with attempt to commit an offense, possessing criminal tools, possession of drug abuse instruments, and possession of drug paraphernalia for allegedly attempting to switch item tickets and conceal items from the store on her person at a St. Clair Township business and possessing hypodermic syringes, a glass smoking pipe and narcotics on her person at that time on May 18.

A pretrial was set July 21 for James Nelson, 38, South Street, Warren, charged with theft for allegedly failing to pay for 19 items totaling $117.29 in value at a St. Clair Township business on May 10.

A pretrial was set July 15 for Angel Santay, 19, Park Drive, Salem, charged with underage consumption, assured clear distance ahead, operating a motor vehicle without a valid license, and failure to stop after an accident for allegedly having open containers of alcohol inside his vehicle during a hit and skip investigation in Salem on May 17.

A pretrial was set July 13 for William Hernan, 24, Columbiana Canfield Road, Canfield, charged with OVI.

A pretrial was set July 20 for Nicholas Allen Anderson, 32, Wilbert Avenue, East Liverpool, charged with falsification for allegedly claiming to St. Clair Township police on May 13 that his wife was assaulted by her work manager at a local restaurant. Police discovered the assault did not take place by watching surveillance video and speaking to the alleged victim, who said she was never assaulted.

Tammy Joe Manley, 27, Riley Avenue, East Liverpool, was fined $300 for a miscellaneous wildlife violation and hunting without permission for a hunting incident involving a deer on Dec. 20, 2025 on Osbourne Road in Madison Township.

James E. Hanlon, 39, Ohio Avenue, East Liverpool, was fined $200 for improper handling of a firearm in a motor vehicle for having a shotgun and live round in the vehicle near him when he was a passenger in a traffic stop on Dec. 20, 2025 in Madison Township.

Charles Duane Hollingshead, 29, Teegarden Road, Lisbon, was fined $200 for miscellaneous wildlife for hunting from the bed of his truck Dec. 20, 2025 in Unity Township.

A court trial was set June 23 for Mariah R. Beaver, 35, Cartwright Street, East Liverpool, charged with intoxication for an incident of public intoxication on July 1, 2025 in East Liverpool.

A pretrial was set July 20 for Britteny A. Eavers, 33, New Springfield, charged with operating a vehicle impaired and a turn signal violation.

A pretrial was set July 20 for Antonio Paul Doerr, 23, South Lincoln Avenue, Lisbon, charged with OVI and OVI breath.

A pretrial was set July 21 for James Allen Davis, 57, Lisbon Street, East Liverpool, charged with speeding.

A private review/decision to the bench was set for June 15 for Kaylee Nichole Carlisle, 20, Franklin Avenue, Salem, charged with speeding.

Catherine Sayre, 54, East Liverpool, was ordered to pay costs only for lighted lights amended from driving under suspension.

Evan M. Mathewson, 18, Randel Road, Hanoverton, was fined $125 for no license amended from operating off road vehicle on roadway and lighted lights amended from operating a vehicle all purpose vehicle without proper lights.

Diego H. Lambo, 59, Sprucevale Road, East Liverpool, was ordered to pay costs only for lighted lights amended from speeding.

Leanna Eve Risbeck, 24, West Perry Street, Salem, was fined $50 for driving while texting, but the fine will be suspended and no point assessed if proof of completion of a distracted driving course is provided.

Lisa Marie Drennan, 47, Chester, W.Va., was fined $35 for speeding.

A preliminary hearing was set May 27 for Lance M. Morris, 39, Hilltop Drive, Lisbon, charged with felonious assault, a second-degree felony, for allegedly beating a woman with a large mirror and frame and making her fear she was going to be killed on May 18 in Salem.