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Perry Township —Officers on patrol in the area of U.S. Route 62 and North Ellsworth Avenue observed a vehicle turn onto U.S. Route 62 while driving on the wrong side of the roadway at 1:51 a.m. Sunday. Officers conducted a traffic stop on the vehicle, and the driver, Marquis Rosa, Youngstown, was cited for failure to register and for driving without insurance. —Officers responded to the 1800 block of South Lincoln Avenue at 10:37 p.m. Thursday for a reported single-vehicle accident. When officers arrived the Ohio State Highway Patrol was on scene and took over the investigation. ...

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St. Clair Township — A female came to the police station on Nov. 29 inquiring if officers could go to her sister’s house where she left her purse and see if they could go with her to get her purse. — An officer notified a drug task force agent on Nov. 29 that he was following a truck on Gaston Avenue which he believed to be driven by a person of interest. When the truck turned into a BP Station officers identified the driver who was under suspension but was able to disclose the location of the person of interest. — A driver was given a warning for no registration ...

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East Palestine — Officers on patrol located a pile of straw and tree limbs burning in the park at 1:42 a.m. on Tuesday. The area was checked but no one was located. — Officers responded to an injured deer that had been struck by a vehicle on Brookdale Avenue at 6:34 p.m. on Sunday. Officers dispatched the deer humanely. — Officers responded at 10:08 p.m. on Saturday to North Market Street for a domestic violence report and arrested Taylor S. Snyder, no age or address provided, for unlawful restraint. Sunder was transported to the county jail. — Officers discovered a ...

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Columbiana — Todd Sabean, of Akron, was arrested at 7:14 p.m. Dec. 1 in the 1300 block of Heck Road, after a police pursuit. Police had initiated a traffic stop of a white work van due to a report of it following a tractor trailer for an extended period of time. After the operator (Sabean) stopped and talked briefly to officers, he fled down state routes 14 and 7 within the city before being terminated north of the jurisdiction. Police have requested a warrant for his arrival for failure to comply. — Dylan Baker, of Negley, was cited at 7:44 p.m. Nov. 30 in the 44000 block of ...

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Leetonia — A suspicious vehicle was reported driving very slow at 2:34 a.m. Dec. 5 in the area of state Route 344 and West Main Street. After initiating a traffic stop on the vehicle, an officer saw the windows were frosted over due to the lack of functioning heat and asked that his vehicle be towed to his parents’ home. — Officers performed a welfare check shortly after midnight Dec. 8 on a residence in the first block of Walnut Street as a result of a noise complaint. Upon arrival and contact, he heard nothing and cleared. — Police performed another welfare check ...

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St. Clair Township — Matthew Bigelow, age and address not provided, was cited following a Nov. 28 traffic stop on Dresden Avenue. Bigelow was observed by the officer making a left turn into the north exit at Walmart where the location is marked with a no left turn sign. — Parties involved in an Nov. 28 accident were both advised to make a report and contact their insurance companies after each reported being hit by the other and officers unable to determine who hit whom due to both vehicles having left the scene of the accident and there being no debris field. Both drivers say ...