Steubenville Police

Angry driver: A motorist reported a road rage incident with a male driver, Friday. She said she turned onto South Seventh Street at Adams and noticed a black pickup following “extremely close to the rear of her vehicle.” She said when she pulled into a gas station parking lot, the driver “parked in the middle of the road and began yelling profanities at her,” then exited his truck and approached her, leaning into her window as he continued to yell at her. When passersby began yelling for someone to call 911 the man left, but not before trying to pull her license plate off her car and when he couldn’t, kicked the back of her vehicle before leaving the area in his pickup. She was able to get his plate number, and police said the vehicle is registered in West Virginia.

Escalating: A resident in the 1400 block of Belleview Boulevard said he saw a man walk up to his vehicle and stomp on the hood before leaving in a Chevy Malibu that he’d seen driving by his house earlier, Friday. He said his roommate has issues with a male who drives a Malibu, and the roommate claims the same male had tried to run him over last week while he was riding an electric scooter. He said before the scooter incident, he’d tried to speak with the man “about parking a truck on the road.”

Alarmed: A city resident told police she believes a male known to her has been bugging her house, Friday. She claims the male broke one of her windows out recently and said she’s come home several times and “noticed the smell of fresh paint and drywall dust on the floors.” She also alleges the man put a tracker on her iPad so he could access her passwords and other private information. Police filed the report and advised her to follow up with detectives.

Problem behavior: A resident told police her ex entered her home without permission, Friday. She said a friend was in her residence when her ex texted her that he was there, so she texted her friend who reported seeing a “shadow under the door,” Her friend ran to the door and the homeowner and a third friend ran into the home and located the male, but he fled the apartment with her phone. She said since their breakup her ex “continuously messages her, follows her and threatens her.”

Down: Police said they spotted a man face down on the sidewalk in the 200 block of North Sixth Street and said he appeared “extremely lethargic,” Sunday. He told police he thought he fell, but they said his pupils were pinpointed and he fell asleep several times while sitting up. Police report he told them he’d taken Suboxone prescribed to him and had consumed alcohol. He allegedly had a buprenorphine pill in his pocket so Steubenville EMS administered Narcan before taking him to the hospital for treatment. He was issued a drug treatment form.

Break time: Police said a man who’d had too much to drink was found sleeping on the sidewalk in the 500 block of South Street, Saturday. Police said at his request, they drove him home.

Concerned: A city resident reported being threatened “more than once by the same person during the last week,” Friday.

Bothered: A resident reported a female “is spreading rumors about him” to people in his building, Friday.

Cited: Lisa Moziejko, 63, 425 Linduff Ave., Steubenville, driving without a license. A passenger, Jeffrey Moziejko, 35, 129 Yale Place., Steubenville also was cited for allegedly possessing drug paraphernalia.

Mind games: A woman said she and a family member are being harassed, Friday. She said someone left a note on her vehicle referencing some money allegedly being owed “and other civil matters.” Police advised the woman to continue filing reports to document the incidents.

Summoned: Michael Clevenger, 49, 1309 Sinclair Ave., Steubenville, possession of drug paraphernalia, Saturday. Police allege a glass pipe was found during a traffic stop on Fourth Street at Ross street.

No sign: A caller said another woman was harassing her on 7th Street at Franklin Avenue, Saturday. Police were at a nearby location when they were alerted and saw the caller “(leaving) the scene and (driving) past our marked cruisers,” nor did they see the other woman allegedly involved.

Collision: Two cars collided at the intersection of Wellesley Avenue and Carnegie Street, Sunday. A male told police he’d struck a white car going through the intersection without its headlights on, so he didn’t see it. He said the other driver left the scene without stopping. Police reviewed video footage of the mishap and determined the other car’s lights were on when the vehicle entered the intersection and the other driver stopped, got out of his car and approached the man and his passenger, and “appears as if they talked for a minute” before leaving the scene.

Irritating neighbors: A man hired to do some work inside a Colonial Drive apartment said he was in his truck when a man walked by and said something to the effect of “look at this, cowboy” and threw a “wadded up piece of paper near his truck,” Saturday. He said when he looked at the paper, the writer suggested he should “have some common courtesy for those working 100 hours a week, obviously not you.” Police knocked on the doors of apartments above and below the one the contractor was working on but no one answered the door.

Wants in: A woman asked police to retrieve her purse and prescription medication from a residence on North Seventh Street, Saturday. She said the male tenant was not there, but police located him at a nearby location. He told them she had her purse when she left earlier in the day and he didn’t think her things were in the residence and would call her when he returned to his residence so she could look for them. Police advised her not to force her way in and to instead wait for him to call.

Sad: A city resident who evicted her adult son several months ago “due to ongoing issues he causes” said he returned, uninvited, Saturday. She said she told him to stay away but alleges he tried to force his way into the residence, but fled on foot when he saw her calling police. She said there was no physical altercation nor was anything damaged, but asked police to tell him not to return to the property.