Saline Township Police

Booked: Derick Andrew Hague, 18, 110 Christ Lane, Weirton, trafficking drugs, carrying concealed weapons and receiving stolen property, Sunday. Sheriff’s deputies report a township police officer found a bookbag that allegedly contained several bags of marijuana, marijuana eatable products two cell phones and a Smith & Wesson .380 caliber handgun during a traffic stop on County Road 50 near Croft Lane. The gun was reported stolen in Weirton, they noted.

Steubenville Police

Fanned the flames: Flames were spotted under the old parking garage in the 600 block of Market Street, Sunday. A homeless man in the basement said he’d been staying there for about a month and set some cardboard on fire to stay warm. Police took him to the City Rescue Mission.

Fortuitous loss: A caller reported a female in the 400 block of N. 7th Street needed assistance, and when they got there the woman told them she’d lost her keys, Sunday. They said the woman had bloodshot, glassy eyes and admitted she’d been drinking. Police offered her a ride to her home in Weirton, but before she got in the cruiser she told them she had several hypodermic needles in her pocket, though when they searched her officers said “no needles or anything illegal” were found on her.

Lock it or lose it: A Harold Street resident said he left his vehicle unlocked while he was at a west end gas station and someone stole his Sig Sauer 9 mm semiautomatic handgun, Sunday. He said he left it in the center console.

Youthful indiscretion: A caller reported a red car driving recklessly in the Oak Grove Avenue area, failing to stop at stop signs, Sunday. An officer spotted the Cruz at the intersection of Carnegie Street and Wellesley Avenue, noting the two males in the front seat were wearing full facial masks with a passenger in the back seat. The driver “appeared to have no actual destination,” police said, and after driving aimlessly and then pulling over several times police pulled the vehicle over and ordered the driver and front passenger to remove their masks and all three of them out of the car. None of them had a valid license, and the driver eventually admitted the car was his brother’s and he swiped the keys while he was sleeping and he didn’t know it was missing. Each was identified and turned over to their parents and the youth driving the car was cited for the license violation.

No where to go: Abraham Walker, 53, no fixed address, was booked on a criminal trespass charge after an Oregon Avenue landlord found him in one of his properties, Sunday. The landlord told them a neighbor had told him they’d seen a suspicious male entering the building. After he got there he said Walker left the building and sat down on the porch. Walker told police he’d needed a place to sleep.

Bagged: A man paid his overdue book fine and then walked into the DVD section and put several in his bag and left, without checking out, Friday.

Jefferson County Sheriff

Meddling: An Adena woman told deputies her daughter was breaking up with her live-in boyfriend “and he was at the residence taking items that did not belong to him,” Sunday. She told deputies he’d brought a semi and some friends and were taking things from the house, but her daughter told deputies she knew he was there getting his things and didn’t know why her mother had called 911.

Booked: Lincoln Joseph Peacock, ??, 437 4th St., Bergholz, probation violation, Friday. The order was issued in Wintersville County Court.

Bad way: A woman needed deputies to serve a protection order so she and her kids wouldn’t have to sleep with her in her car, Friday. The protection order awards her possession of the apartment but her ex was still staying there. Deputies served the order and he left.