Toronto Police

Charged: Mary Jackson, 43, no fixed address, trespassing, March 22.

Charged: Maliyah J. Kelley, 18, 1420 Belleview Blvd., Steubenville, driving while suspended, speeding and distracted driving, March 24.

Charged: Jonathan T. Mitchell, 37, 365 Frostview Drive, Wintersville, violating a protective order, March 25.

Charged: Latre’e T. Russell, 32, Apartment 47, 901 Bank St., domestic violence, Friday.

Charged: Jordan E. Smith, 43, Toronto, no operator’s license, Saturday.

Jefferson County Sheriff

Troublemaker: A 9-year-old told his grandfather that his father had locked him out of his apartment but failed to tell him it was because he’d disobeyed and got himself muddy, Saturday. Deputies said when grandpa arrived he kept “squaring up and raising his closed fists” at the boy’s father, complaining that “nobody should be laying a finger on him” and arguing with the boy’s father. Deputies said they had to hold grandpa back. The father told them what actually happened was he was working on his car and told the boy not to get muddy because he couldn’t go in the house until he was done, but the boy didn’t listen. He said the boy was “covered with mud” and wanted to go in, but he told him he’d have to wait until he finished working on the car and could lock his tools away so they wouldn’t be stolen. He said he was putting his tools away when his son decided to call his grandfather.

Drug induced: A caller reported a man hired to help Bloomingdale residents with their landscaping was yelling “someone is trying to kill me,” Saturday. Deputies said the handyman told them “He was being hacked by numerous unknown people and that he was attempting to make contact” with his phone carrier. He also said that earlier in the evening he began smoking a cigarette and drinking water and “believed the people he resides with drugged him.” He also said “he was being held captive and chased down with chainsaws by the people he lived with” on county Road 36 and deputies noted he was “perspiring heavily and displaying symptoms of an altered mental state” so they called for an ambulance. The homeowners said he’d been “acting strangely since early evening” when he told them his phone and computer had been hacked, and if a neighbor had heard him yelling it was “due to them attempting to calm (him) down.” They said they don’t know what he might have taken to cause him to act like that. They said they’d picked him up at the jail a month ago when he was released, and he’d been “displaying odd behaviors” since they hired him.

Fingers talking: A woman living on township Road 381, Steubenville, reported a traffic problem but hung up without giving anyone details, Saturday. She flagged deputies down and said she’d seen a red Ford F-150 with a gray hood and green tail gate and broken exhaust speeding down the road and when she yelled at him to slow down, “the driver stopped and the two of them exchanged words and gestures.” She said she threw rocks at his truck before he left.

Old habits: An Adena resident said a male showed up at her home intoxicated and was refusing to leave, Sunday. She said she’d been letting him stay at the home as long as he remained sober, but he “began to drink and got very intoxicated … and started to become argumentative with her and her children.” She said when she asked him to leave, he began making threats that, “If she called the cops she would also go to jail.” Deputies were unable to locate him at the time but when he returned later, they reminded him he’s not permitted to be there and his probation from a prior incident could be revoked. He was allowed to remain there for the night while the female and her children sheltered with a family friend.

Break time: A caller was concerned with a suspicious vehicle parked on a church lot on county Road 17, Rayland, Saturday. Deputies said the man was sleeping in his driver’s seat and said he was driving home from Georgia and got tired, so he pulled over for a nap.

Noisy night: A Richmond resident complained of loud music from a nearby home, Saturday. Deputies located the offenders, who explained they were “working on a car and didn’t realize the music was too loud.” They turned the volume down.

Theft: A landlord reported the theft of a Craftsman generator and two antique urns from a rental property on county Road 26, Wintersville, Friday. He told police his renters were in the process of moving out, but he did not believe they took the items.

Steubenville Police

Down and out: A caller reported seeing a woman passed out in the lobby at JFK Apartments, Sunday. Police said they found a man on the floor just inside the front door who told them he “was just sleeping.” Steubenville EMS took him for an evaluation. Seven hours later police were called to North End Park to check on an unresponsive male in the men’s bathroom. It was the same man, and this time city firefighters “secured (him) in the back of the ambulance.”

Take over: Individuals checking on a family property on Oregon Avenue discovered a squatter had made himself at home, Sunday. A male said he found a back window broken out and the door locked, so he called other family members to the scene who entered the property through the broken window. He said the male, who they recognized, was “squatting in the residence and at no point (was he) given permission to be there.” He said he confronted the man, who fled but they spotted numerous items missing from the property, including an urn that had contained a family member’s ashes. They located the missing items, including the ashes, in a dumpster behind the residence though the urn itself was gone. They told police they want to pursue charges.

Prize fight: A woman said she was sucker-punched during a “large fight” on Franklin Avenue outside the American Legion, early Sunday. She told police she was outside when the brawl started, and a woman came up behind her and punched her. Police said her left eye was bruised and swollen. She is able to identify her assailant.

Sauced up: A Kendall Avenue resident said his adult son was intoxicated and wanted him removed from the residence, Sunday. The son said the two of them had been drinking together but started arguing and it spilled out into the street. Arrangements were made for him to spend the night at a neighbor’s residence, police said.

Prickly: A Lafayette Boulevard resident said he found a neighbor lying in the street so he helped him into his home and then called police to check on him, Sunday. Police said they could see the man on his living room sofa and when they knocked, he walked to the door but would not open it. They said he “yelled that he was fine and to leave,” and when they asked him if he needed medical assistance, he said the same thing.

Straight talk: A Maryland Avenue couple said a juvenile accused them of nearly hitting him with their car, but they told police it never happened, Sunday. They said the kid was riding his bicycle in the street and failed to stop at a stop sign, but “at no time time was the child nearly struck.”