Jefferson County Sheriff

Opportunistic: A woman said she lost her debit card after she made a purchase in Yorkville and the person who found it had racked up more than $300 in unauthorized purchases, Saturday. Police obtained receipts for the fraudulent transactions along with a description of the alleged unauthorized user. They located the man, who deputies allege admitted using it to purchase cigarettes, vapes and two Google Play gift cards, but said a man at the bus stop handed him the debit card and told him to get whatever he wanted. Deputies said Joshua Matthew Peets, 25, 209 Garden Ave., C, Yorkville was booked into the county jail on charges of theft and misuse of a credit card.

Drug arrest: A patron at an East Springfield gas station said a couple was fighting and it appeared a woman didn’t want to leave with the man, Saturday. He said the woman had a bruise on her face she was trying to conceal and based on the yelling going on between them, the caller thought she was being abused. Deputies located the couple, and said the man said they had been kicked out of the place they were staying because of the female’s drug problems. He said he “didn’t want her to be homeless alone because they were dating,” but admitted they were living out of their car. He told deputies he’s been trying to keep her off drugs and they’d argued at the gas station because she was asking people for money and a ride to Steubenville. Deputies allegedly found a bag with some marijuana, pipes and bowls as well as a tin containing a substance believed to be methamphetamine and took Bobby Moran, 31, 931 Sheffield Ave., Steubenville, into custody on charges of possession of drugs and possession of drug paraphernalia. They said Moran “became irate and started screaming at the top of her lungs and was kicking around the cruiser,” and told them she had a medical issue, so they took her to the hospital to be cleared. While they were at the hospital they allege Moran was “having conversations with people not there” and when another officer walked by she mistook him for her male companion and “started screaming for him to help her and that she was being kidnapped.”

Steubenville Police

Pushy: A Lawson Avenue resident came to regret giving a woman a ride when she refused to get out of his car, Monday. The owner said when he got to his home she wouldn’t get out so he walked around to the passenger side and when he opened the door, she “started to swing at him and kick his vehicle.” He said after she hit him multiple times he “did strike her.” The woman said he gave her a ride home from the bar but they started arguing because she wouldn’t get out of the car because she wanted him to drop her off at the store and he refused. She said he parked the vehicle “then approached her side of the vehicle in an attempt to remove her, and that’s when things turned physical.” She claimed he “tried to physically remove (her) and struck her before she began to fight back, but a witness told police the woman “threw several punches” at the driver when he tried to get her out of the car and had kicked it. Neither of them wanted to file charges.

Fraudulent charges: Alvaredo Boulevard residents said a relative and her boyfriend had stolen thousands of dollars from them, Monday. The homeowners said they’d let the couple stay with them and at one point allowed them to borrow their bank card to help pay bills and buy groceries. They said they were contacted by “the suspect’s mother (who) advised them she had drained all of their money” from their bank account. The husband said he believed there was at least $26,000 in the accounts. He didn’t have any documents proving theft, so police advised him to gather his bank statements for detectives to review.

Vigilante justice: A Franklin Avenue resident said three men walked up the sidewalk to his home and asked “if the bicycles were in his residence,” Monday. When he told them he didn’t know anything about bicycles he said one of the men “began to reach into his waistband as if he may have had a firearm” and told him he “was getting into the residence if he had to shoot.” The four of them argued before the three men left, he said.

Getaway: A woman at a South Fifth Street location claimed a man was hitting himself and made reference to wanting to kill himself, but when police spoke with the man he told them he she’d made it up. He said all he wanted to do was “be away from (her)” and had already called for a ride.

1970s show: A man in a wheelchair “began to possibly hallucinate and seize on the porch of a residence” in the city, Tuesday. Police said he was on the ground and kept advising he could not breathe, but once Steubenville EMS had him in an ambulance they said he admitted “he may have ingested psychedelic mushrooms.”

Recovered: A woman said she lost her phone at the mall, Monday. She used another phone to find it and police determined it was at the City Rescue Mission. They located the resident who had it, who said he’d found it. They advised him in future he needs to turn in things he finds to the property authority.

Lock it or lose it: A State Street resident who left her 2007 Ford Explore unlocked with the keys inside told police it was missing, Monday. She said she had allowed a neighbor to use it but when she asked him about it he said he didn’t know it was missing.

Fraud: A city resident said she found out someone E-filed a tax return using her name and had the refund deposited in a bank account that did not belong to her, Monday.

Found: A stray dog was in someone’s yard in the 900 block of Pittsburgh Street, Monday. Police said they were able to get the dog into a police vehicle and took it to the Jefferson County Animal Shelter.

Cited: Eugene Stabile, 70, 127 Sherwood Drive, Weirton, expired plates and driving under suspension; Moira K. Rice, 81, 4342 Steuben Woods Drive, Steubenville, prohibited left turn (Bryden Road onto Sunset Boulevard.)