Steubenville Police 

Charged: A Steubenville woman was taken into custody after police who’d responded for a report of a disturbance said they heard her threatening to harm someone, Tuesday. Police charged Sandra L. Hanlin, 54, 1014 McKinley Ave., with domestic violence.  

Couldn’t remember: A possible assault was reported in the 100 block of North Fifth Street, Sunday. The woman told police that “after returning home from drinking, she found herself laying on the floor and upon becoming awake and alert … she discovered she was bleeding from her head.” Police said she told them she didn’t know how she was hurt and was “unable to remember anything after returning to her residence.” She had a large cut on top of her head which was still bleeding, and she agreed to go to the hospital for treatment. 

Snap, crackle or pop: A Carnegie Street resident said individuals were shooting a gun out of a hot tub, Sunday. Police spoke with several college students who advised they heard what sounded like firecrackers, and said there was no sign of a gun. Another neighbor also advised it might have been firecrackers but said she “was unsure and did not believe the students in the hot tub were involved.” 

Take the hint: Wal-Mart employees told police they spotted a man who’d been banned from the store for life concealing merchandise in two gym bags, Friday. When employees told him he was banned he left, but said they recovered 40 items valued at a total of $484 he’d stuffed into the bags. 

False alarm: Officers responded to the 700 block of Oakmont Avenue for a shots fired call, Saturday. A resident reported having video footage of a vehicle shooting out the window, but police said when they looked at the footage officers said it was clear the occupants were “letting fireworks off from inside the vehicle.” The vehicle couldn’t be located. 

Overstated: A city resident said his ex and her daughter have been sending him texts “of a threatening nature” since their breakup, Friday. Police said they didn’t see any “overt threats” in the texts he showed them. 

Agitated: A driver making a right from Market Street onto North Third Street told police she hit a pedestrian caution sign and panicked, accidentally hitting the gas and causing her vehicle to veer off the road and strike a handrail. Her car had “moderate damage,” they said. 

Stressed: An employee at a downtown business said she was being harassed and threatened by a co-worker, Friday. Their boss said she didn’t hear any threats and advised police there have been “ongoing issues” between the two women. 

Bad timing: An intoxicated male was reported in the 100 block of South Seventh Street, Friday. The male, Cary B. Cox, 53, no fixed address, said he didn’t need medical attention and was taken into custody on an outstanding warrant out of municipal court. 

Dogged: K-9 Puma was called to assist an Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper with a stop on state Route 7 at Brilliant, Saturday. Puma alerted to the driver’s side door, where officers say they found a small amount of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia. An unidentified passenger was taken into custody after officers learned of an active warrant out of Columbiana County, and police were later notified officers in Columbiana County located “a small amount of fentanyl” on that passenger at booking. 

Cited: Honesti S. Blair, 23, 177 Roberts St., Wintersville, two stop sign violations. Police reported seeing her vehicle “traveling at a high rate of speed on South Fifth Street” Saturday and claim she failed to stop at the Adams and South streets intersections. They said Blair told them she was running out of gas and was trying to get to a gas station. 

Drugs: Two people in front of Fort Steuben Apartments told police a woman “just collapsed and they believed she was not breathing,” Saturday. Police found the woman “on the ground, unresponsive” and having difficulty breathing. Steubenville firefighters/EMS administered Narcan, which revived her. She was issued a drug treatment form and taken to the hospital. 

Crazy: A caller reported a man armed with a gun chasing a female in the 100 block of Hollywood Boulevard, Saturday. Police located the woman, who pointed toward Hollywood Boulevard and told them the man had walked away and “might have tossed the firearm somewhere on Cleveland Avenue.” Police searched for a weapon but were unable to locate it. 

Concerned: A caller told police a woman was trying to stop and enter vehicles in the 600 block of Carnegie Street, Saturday. Police checked the area but were unable to locate the woman, described as a white female with black hair wearing a red hoody. 

Unhappy: A woman was trying to remove property from a residence in the 2000 block of Fairmont Avenue, but the owner said she owes him rent and he didn’t want her in the property until she paid him, Saturday. They were told property disputes would have to be settled in court. The homeowner was told that since she’d been living there, she had a right to enter and would have to be formally evicted. 

Stolen: A woman stopped an officer in the 400 block of Washington Street and reported the theft of her 90-day prescription for an anticonvulsant sometimes used to treat withdrawal symptoms, and $500 in cash, Sunday. The woman told police she thinks a family member might have taken it. 

Booked: Mahogany Luke, 31, 459 S. Fifth St., Steubenville, failure to appear, Sunday. Luke was taken into custody after she reported being assaulted by a man in the 800 block of North Sixth Street, police said. Luke told them she was visiting the man and his child when the child ate her ice cream, and when she confronted the father, she claimed he “pushed her and struck her face multiple times with a closed fist.” The man said they’d argued but claimed there had been no physical altercation, despite a small scratch on Luke’s face and “light redness on her right cheek.” Police told her to stay away from the man and advised her to get a protection order, then discovered she had an outstanding warrant and booked her into the county jail. 

Unhappy split: Two people arguing in the 400 block of Dresden Avenue said they were fighting over a television, Sunday. The man was in the process of moving out, so the woman said he could sleep on the couch for a few days. 

Recurring: A report of an unresponsive man in the 700 block of Adams Street, ended with the man in police custody, Tuesday. Cary B. Cox, 53, no fixed address, was booked into the county jail on charges of intoxication and having an open container. Officers said when they found Cox he was sleeping in a parking lot with several beer cans around him, “including an almost full tall boy beer.” When he came to, police allege he was “highly intoxicated to the point he could barely stand” so they called for an ambulance. Officers “noted that this is an almost every-other-day pattern” with him, the report stated. 

Parental nightmare: A father reported inappropriate Snap Chat activity between his juvenile daughter and another juvenile known to him, Tuesday. 

Wrongful use: A woman who bought her brother a car before his death told police his girlfriend had lied to her about it being broken down when she went to retrieve it, Tuesday. She said she got a toll booth ticket for the vehicle, which is in her name. The girlfriend lives in Morgantown. 

Funny money: Someone tried to pass a counterfeit $20 bill at Kroger, Monday. The cashier realized the bill was bogus so she kept it and didn’t give the customer change. 

It’s gone: A driver parked a cream-colored Mercury in front of a driveway in the 1400 block of Maryland Avenue, Monday. Dispatchers were unable to contact the owner, who doesn’t live in town, nor could they find anyone at a local address associated with the owner. The homeowner said she waited three days to call police in hopes the owner would move the vehicle, but no one did. A citation was issued to the owner for blocking the garage and the vehicle was towed. 

Reported: A Rosslyn Boulevard resident said a male known to him is violating his protection order, Friday. He told police the other man “came at him in a hostile manner on his four-wheeler, cussing at him and making threats.” 

Pointed: Someone threw a sledgehammer through the driver’s side window of a vehicle parked behind a business on South Fourth Street, Monday. The vandalism happened between 10 a.m. and 3:30 p.m., the owner said. 

Disappearing act: A “possible intoxicated male” was reported in the vicinity of South Street at South Seventh Street, Monday. Police checked the area but couldn’t find anyone who matched the description. 

Pointless: The owner of a property in the 100 block of North Fourth Street said someone shot out an east-facing window with a BB gun, Monday. 

Entered: A Maryland Avenue resident said someone entered her home while she was away and stole her TV, Monday. She said she’d left a living room light on while she was away and whoever broke in turned it off before leaving. 

Robbed: A TV, a window air conditioner and multiple movies were stolen from a Lawson Avenue residence, Monday. Entry was made through a basement door. 

Reason given: A Wilson Avenue resident told police a man who “seemed to be under the influence of something” walked on his porch, “screaming and yelling at him like he knew who he was,” Monday. A family member told police the person causing the disturbance was having trouble with his medication and it was causing him to act out. 

Cited: A caller reported seeing a female stumbling on the sidewalk in the 200 block of North Seventh Street, Tuesday. Police said she “seemed highly intoxicated based on her being unsteady on her feet, her slurred speech and the odor of an alcoholic beverage emitting from her.” 

Loud and proud: Neighbors reported arguing at an apartment in the 100 block of North Fourth Street, Tuesday. Officers said when they located the apartment they found “multiple intoxicated subjects having a loud party.” They were advised to keep the noise down. 

Cited: Lisa M. Fouse, 45, Langeloth, Pa., no registration lights; Jonaka D. Wallace, 27, 650 South Fifth Street, told them she was walking home; Nicholas Conway, 30, 135 Preston Road, Steubenville, speeding in a school zone; Grace A. Shoemaker, 19, Gilford, N.H., speeding in a school zone. 

Jefferson County Sheriff 

Shattered: A man living on Township Road 281, Steubenville, told deputies his car broke down Friday so he left it on the side of the road in Costonia, but when he went back to get it the driver’s side window was broken out and his title was missing, Monday. 

Don’t fall for it: A Smithfield woman told deputies a man with a Middle Eastern accent tried to get her to pay them $2,500 to “fix” her Microsoft license, Tuesday. The septuagenarian said in January, her computer screen had turned blue and when she called the phone number that appeared on the screen, a man with the same Middle Eastern accent answered and told her he could fix it for $1,200. She paid him and her computer began working normally, she said. Several weeks ago she said she got a call on her land line advising her that her Microsoft license wasn’t working correctly and offering to fix it for $2,500. She said she wrote the check, then had second thoughts and stopped it. 

Booked: Samuel Keyser, 41, 138 Simms Road, Toronto, warrants for domestic violence and aggravated menacing, Tuesday. The charges stem from an incident 10 days ago in which Keyser allegedly threatened harm to his ex-girlfriend when he found her at a family function. Family members had alleged he shoved one man out of the way and grabbed another by the neck before running to his truck and grabbing his handgun. Keyser told deputies he didn’t understand why he was being arrested and insisted he was “only trying to protect his 3-year-old daughter and (current girlfriend) from his brother.” He claimed his brother was threatening him in front of the two females so he pulled his handgun out from where he kept it in his truck and, still holstered, put it on his hip. He “denied ever drawing the (gun) or pointing it at (his brother),” deputies said. 

Booked: Joshua W. Gaumer, 22, Kensington, Ohio, warrant out of Carroll County for domestic violence and criminal damaging, Tuesday. Gaumer was taken into custody at a property on Saline Township Road 471, deputies said. 

Eat smarter: An Amsterdam woman who required hospital treatment for abdominal pain told police she’d eating a marijuana gummy, Tuesday. Deputies said she told them a friend gave her the gummy, telling deputies she “sometimes smokes marijuana and rarely eats the gummies.” She said she didn’t know the friend’s name but described the gummy as being a “big, yellow triangle.” 

Revisiting: Deputies returned to a Wintersville home after a male there reported “he was hearing things and ‘just trippin’,” Tuesday. Officers were at the home several weeks ago when the male reported seeing people in his home, telling them at the time he thought it was because his medication was “messed up.” This time, he said he called because he thought someone was in the house but then realized he wasn’t thinking clearly.