Brooke County sheriff

Charged: Sean M. Hess, 47, 282 Woodvue Lane, Wintersville, possession of a controlled substance, Wednesday.

Charged: Chavoi D. Brooks, 23, 460 S. Sixth St., Steubenville, no proof of insurance, Friday.

Charged: Bryan E. Frye, 42, 151 First St., Colliers, shooting within 500 feet of a dwelling, Saturday.

Steubenville Police

Memory lapse: Police said they spotted a man with a past prostitution arrest pick up a woman known to abuse drugs “in a known prostitution area,” Sunday. The man said he’s “dated” her off and on and that he “must have forgotten about being arrested for prostitution” in the past. The female told police he was “taking her to his residence to clean (it.)”

Hit: A woman said she was assaulted while standing outside Club 106, Sunday. She said the woman, an ex-boyfriend’s sister, “began hitting her.” Police said her eye was swollen and she wanted to pursue charges but she’d been drinking, so they advised her she’d need to complete her statement when she was sober. She told police her ex was with his sister.

Bad driving: A caller reported seeing a silver car with two flat tires strike some bushes next to Pleasant Food Mart, Sunday. Police said they located a damaged silver Honda Accord on South Street near Butte Street with damage to the entire passenger side and two flat tires and said after getting the female driver out and advising her she was being taken into custody she “became passive aggressive and refused to get in” so they had to assist her. Ashley Perez, 35, East Chicago, Ill., was booked into the county jail on a charge of operating a vehicle under the influence, police said.

Self-taught: Police stopped a car going the wrong way on Ridge Avenue and discovered it was being driven by a 14-year-old girl, Sunday. She had two passengers with her, police said, and both of them were also 14. Police took the girls home and found out the mother of the girl who’d been driving “was unaware that her daughter had even left the house (or that) she took her vehicle.” The teen driver is going to be cited, police said.

Let it go: A Broadway Boulevard man upset because his ex is moving out told police she took his stove, some furniture and a patio set that were his, Sunday. He said she recently moved out but “returns to the residence when she wants” and has left her dog there. Police said he told them his ex owns the property.

Causing problems: An employee at American Legion Post 33 told police a man walked in after they closed and demanded a drink, Sunday. She said he “began screaming and causing a disturbance” when she wouldn’t serve him and didn’t leave until she called police.

Throwing stones: A Maryland Avenue resident said a drunken man was throwing rocks at her car and her home, Sunday. She told police he’d been yelling in the alley and throwing things and she was worried he would damage her house or car. She took police around her property and after not finding any new damage, police told the man to stay away from her home and property.

Tall tales: A man in the 400 block of South Fifth Street reported he’d been “shot multiple times,” but when police responded to his location “nobody at (the) address wished to speak” with them and neighbors said they hadn’t heard anything out of the ordinary.

Hit the bricks: A Linden Avenue woman wanted her on-again, off-again boyfriend removed from her home because he was being disrespectful to her mother, Monday. He agreed to leave voluntarily, police said, so the woman allowed him to take a few of his things.

Booked: Louis E. Mowder, 36, 1312 Arlington Ave., Steubenville, warrants for trafficking drugs and failure to appear for arraignment, Sunday.

Pay back: An Oxford Boulevard resident who paid an $8,000 deposit on a covered deck said the contractor delivered the lumber but never started building it, Friday. He said when he looked into the delay his contractor told him the work was being held up by the building inspector, and when he offered to talk to the inspector himself the contractor asked him not to. He said he contacted the city anyway and discovered the contractor is not licensed to work in the city and hadn’t applied for a building permit. He told police he has a handwritten contract they’d both signed but the contractor never gave him anything on his letterhead. He called the man in mid-June and told him he was fired and wanted a refund, but to date hasn’t received the roughly $6,000 leftover from his deposit.