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Wintersville Police
Cited for speeding: Diane Kane, 65, 136 Starkey Blvd.; Aiden McCarthy, 18, Doylestown, Pa.; Robin Frank, 59, Burgettstown; Konner Govey, 22, 3844 State St., Weirton; Debyn Mamula, 55, 217 Frostview Drive; Angel Gonzalez, 25, 1340 Oakgrove Ave., Steubenville; Madison M. Zdinak, 21, 709 West Fernwood Drive, Toronto; Christina J. Rouse, 50, 488 Woodvue Lane; Shilyn A. Crawford, 25, 1344 Oregon Ave., Steubenville; Teresa Blackburn, 43, 136 South Avalon Drive; Luz E. Piedra, 31, 1631 Roosevelt Ave., Steubenville; Gracie Dillon, 21, Apartment C, 4680 Scioto Drive; Debra M. Bain, 63, 801 N. Third St., Toronto; Raymond Haynes Jr., 45, 1222 River Ave., Toronto; Martha A. Harrah, 61, 13383 township Road 166, Bloomingdale; Madison Hall, 18, 209 Longview Ave., Mingo Junction; John S. Lessner, 25, Las Vegas; Deanna L. Blanton, 23, 3801 township Road 242, Toronto; Hunter S. Seminsky, 18, 818 Terika Drive, Follansbee; Latasha Young, 35, Apartment B, 2504 Crabbe Blvd., Steubenville; and Chloe Braden 21, 241 Summit Ave., Mingo Junction.
Cited: Savannah Bowman, 22, 1845 Cadiz Road, driving while suspended and speeding; Samuel Shadle, 22, Valencia, Pa., u-turn; James W. Baker, no age given, 4044 county Road 75, Bergholz, driving while suspended and speeding; Vanessa Tomassilli, 27, 3738 Marland Heights, Weirton, speeding and expired registration; Ley'Mon Roseberry, 27, Apartment F4, 601 Two Ridge Road, Cross Creek, driving while suspended; and Thomas DeVaughn, 61, 209 Lower Spruce St., Follansbee, failure to assure clear distance.
Jefferson County Sheriff
Lose him: A woman visiting her daughter in Bloomingdale said her boyfriend physically assaulted both of them, Monday. John R. Bianchini Jr., 655 Broadway Blvd., Steubenville, was booked into the county jail on a domestic violence charge, deputies said. Deputies said when they mirandized Bianchini, 66, he told them to "just arrest me" and started screaming obscenities at his girlfriend and her daughter, so they did. Police said his girlfriend said something upset him and he announced he was leaving and taking the dog. She had the leash in her hand and it caught in the door, so when he accelerated he dragged her with him. Her daughter saw her being dragged and stopped him by striking the rear window in his hatch back. When his girlfriend reached inside the vehicle to get the dog and her clothes, she said he started punching her thigh with his keys, puncturing her jeans as well as her skin. The daughter alleged she saw him attacking her mother and when she tried to intervene, he started punching her in the arm with the keys, puncturing her skin as well. He claimed the daughter scratched his skin and wanted to pursue charges against her.
End of his rope: A Wintersville man said he was threatened by a man while visiting his fiance at a property on township Road 281, Sunday. He said the man yelled at him for playing his music too loudly and threatened to attack him and break out his car windows if he did it again. Deputies said he had large subwoofers and an amplifier in his car. The other man admitted threatening him but told deputies it was because asking him nicely to turn the music down hadn't worked in the past and the younger man "not only did not comply with his request, he … turns the volume up louder." The younger man agreed to keep his sound system off and be respectful when visiting that property, and the resident advised he would leave him alone if he did.
Charged: A Wintersville woman who allegedly put children in harm's way by having drugs and drug paraphernalia scattered in their home has been charged with child endangerment, deputies said. Tiffany Thomas, 37, 536 Overlook Drive, Wintersville, was taken into custody Saturday after deputies were dispatched to her home to look into a 911 hang-up call and found her boyfriend in a bedroom, unresponsive, and allegedly found drugs and drug paraphernalia in the room and throughout the home. Wintersville firefighters had administered two doses of Narcan to the man, who admitted taking heroin. The children were removed from the home. The boyfriend also is facing a child endangerment charge.
Drugs: Friends of a man who "began to act funny" before becoming unresponsive took him to the post office in Hammondsville, Friday. When deputies arrived, the man was already in an ambulance, but his friends told deputies he had a history of using opioids and they believed he was overdosing and brought him to get help. The man told them he "took a Percocet and it must have been mixed with fentanyl," deputies said. They said he told them he "found it on the ground."
Booked: Tyler David Weaver, 25, 52 West Main St., Richmond, warrant for domestic violence, Friday; Nicholas Ray Oates, 28, 516 township Road 456, Irondale, warrant out of Columbiana County, Friday; Robert Kinkus III, 33, 450 township Road, Rayland, DUS, Friday.
Questions: Dillonvale residents arguing over where the property line is were advised they'd need to have a survey done, Monday. One of them complained her neighbor had put an old vehicle, a camper, a swimming pool and multiple other items on her side of the line, and the other, after initially trying to force the responding deputy out of his home, insisted he owned the land in question.
Steubenville Police
Senseless: A supervisor at a downtown business reported incidents of vandalism, Monday. He said a bench was destroyed and a rear window shattered. He said they've had ongoing issues with individuals damaging property.
No doze: Callers reported a man believed to be intoxicated "as he keeps falling asleep" was refusing to leave the parking lot at the midtown Speedway, Sunday. Police said the man was parked between two fuel pumps, blocking them both. He admitted he'd been drinking several hours earlier. He let police move his car out of the way and call him a ride home.
Just plain stupid: Two men in the 900 block of McKinley Avenue were involved in a disturbance and called police, Sunday. One of them had video footage of the dispute and said it started when he was by the neighbor's fence and the man yelled at him to get off his property. They retreated to their porches and continued the argument. The video showed the man who owned the fence walking toward his neighbor's house but stopping in the middle of the street, and then the man who recorded the disturbance got up and "racked" his handgun.
Drugs: A caller reported a woman possibly overdosing in the 1200 block of Oak Grove Avenue, Sunday. Police said Steubenville firefighters/Ems revived the woman with Narcan but was unable to speak and drifted in and out of consciousness. A friend said the woman had spent the night at her place and when she woke up, found her on the floor and couldn't wake her. The woman was taken to the hospital for further treatment and issued her second drug treatment form.
Bliss: A Colonial Drive resident arguing with her boyfriend said he threw shoes at her front door, Sunday. Police said there were two pairs of men's shoes on the porch outside her door, and the woman told them her boyfriend was no longer on the lease but building managers confirmed he was. The boyfriend said they'd been arguing and he left to avoid problems. Police were called back to the location a second time when the woman was concerned he was going to flatten her tire, but police said they didn't see any damage to her tires.
Long throws: Police located two boys who were seen throwing objects over the Lawson Avenue overpass bridge, Sunday. The boys told officers they'd been tossing branches and rocks over the fence onto the roadway. Police took them to their homes and turned them over to their parents.
Big hit: A woman at the wheel of a disabled vehicle in the westbound lane of University Boulevard told police she'd hit the curb and it flattened her passenger side tires, Sunday. Police said the front wheel "was disabled and no longer attached to the vehicle."
Code issues: Notices of violation were sent to owners/occupants of properties at 1000 McKinley Ave, garbage bags piled on side of house; and 1322 Plum St., Steubenville, beer cans and garbage bags in front yard, beer bottles and cans on front porch.
A juvenile was cited for no operator's license after the car she was operating ran off the road and struck a utility pole in the 600 block of North Sixth Street, Monday. The pole survived but the car had to be towed.
Booked: Elizabeth Ely, 38, no fixed address, possession of drug paraphernalia, obstruction and two warrants for failure to appear, Sunday; Ricky Barnett, 54, 1408 State St., Steubenville, warrant for failure to appear, Monday.
Served: Jordan Renee Achhammer, 26, Neville St., Follansbee, summons for cruelty to animals.