Grand Jury issues 11 open, 34 secret indictments

November 7, 2025

LISBON — The Columbiana County Grand Jury issued indictments Wednesday against multiple defendants for felonious assault charges for alleged attacks using weapons, including a gun, knives, a baseball bat and even a vehicle. The grand jury met for two days and issued 11 open indictments, with one person indicted twice, along with issuing 34 secret indictments. Secret indictments aren’t made public until the defendant is served with the paperwork. Grant Michael Goodballet, 27, Youngstown, was charged with felonious assault, a second-degree felony, and third-degree felony ...

Courts

November 6, 2025

Common Pleas New Cases Brittany Star Hamilton, Hampton Court, East Liverpool, vs. Steven Michael Hamilton, Hillcrest Road, Wellsville; divorce sought. Sara Hawkins-McElroy, North Benton, and Robert McElroy, East Third Street, Salem; dissolution sought. Capital One, N.A., Independence, vs. Curt D. McAfee, state Route 518, Lisbon; collection sought of alleged $8,012 debt. NewRez LLC, Greenville, S.C., vs Jessica M. Melchionne, Seventh Street, Columbiana; mortgage foreclosure sought for Seventh Street, Columbiana property. Docket Entries American Express National Bank vs. Eric ...

Courts

November 5, 2025

Grand Jury LISBON — Two defendants accused of trafficking drugs were served Monday with secret indictments issued by the Columbiana County Grand Jury. Dimitri A. White, also known as Meech, 32, South Street, East Palestine, was charged with trafficking in drugs, a fourth-degree felony, and possession of drugs, a fifth-degree felony, with a specification for forfeiture of money from a drug case for allegedly selling marijuana in the vicinity of a school on Nov. 30, 2017, and possessing $250 and cocaine less than 5 grams on Feb. 1, 2017. William G. Wildman, 51, East Fifth Street, ...

Courts

November 4, 2025

Common Pleas New Cases County Treasurer, Lisbon, vs. Kay Kozlowski, Metz Road, Columbiana, et al; delinquent property tax foreclosure sought for Highland Avenue, Columbiana property. County Treasurer, Lisbon, vs. Nicole Stouffer, Greensburg, Pa., delinquent property tax foreclosure sought for 13th Street, Wellsville property. County Treasurer, Lisbon, vs. Michael Hudak, Youngstown Salem Road, Salem, et al.; delinquent property tax foreclosure sought for Walnut Street, Leetonia property. County Treasurer, Lisbon, vs. Greg Bentley, state Route 39, Salineville, et al.; delinquent ...

REAL ESTATE

November 1, 2025

Butler Township Mary Ann Domer to James D. Buehman II, home on U.S. Route 62; $315,000 Center Township Richard S. Creese to Kahle L. Randolph, mobile home on state Route 164; $238,000 East Liverpool James L. and Shirley L. Fersch Sr. to Sherry Cline, home on Shady Lane; $35,247 Dennis James Salsberry to Jesse James Shinn et al, home on Michigan Avenue; $109,000 Kimber Lee Charles Francis et al to Brandin Diewald, home on Lisbon Street; $180,000 Penny A. Heaton et al to Nicholas Cain Collins, home and other residential structures on Oakwood Avenue; $146,000 East ...

THE COURTS

November 1, 2025

Municipal LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a case against Wilbert E. Faulk, 66, Minerva Street, East Liverpool, was bound over to the county grand jury for two counts of violation of a protection order for allegedly showing up at the apartment of two protected persons in East Liverpool on Sept. 8, in violation of a protection order. He was fined $100 and sentenced to three days in jail, with credit for three days served, leaving zero days to serve for criminal trespass for a July 22 incident when he allegedly trespassed on a Columbiana Metropolitan Housing Authority ...