Brooke County Sheriff

Charged: Brian L. Dobbs, 45, 130 Windsor Ave., Wellsburg, grand larceny and conspiring to commit grand larceny, Tuesday.

Charged: Autumn B. Kovach, 47, 58 27th St., Wellsburg, possession of a controlled substance and receiving stolen goods, Tuesday.

Follansbee Police

Charged: Austin D. Rinkes, 21, 885 Highland St., wanton endangerment involving a firearm, Tuesday.

Charged: Jack R. Johnson, 41, 522 Highland St., Follansbee, domestic battery, Tuesday.

Steubenville Police

Seeing is believing: A man reported lacerations to his neck, Tuesday. Police said the caller told them when he woke up “he thought he felt cuts on the back of his neck,” but when Steubenville firefighters and police checked him, there were none. He still wanted to go to the hospital to get his neck checked.

Down and out: A Grandview Avenue resident told police she thinks her neighbor might be stealing electricity from her, Wednesday. She said her neighbor’s power went out at the same moment a light pole in her back yard was toppled by the wind and was concerned that they were hijacking her power. Police said they found an extension cord running from her home to a rear garage apartment, but there was no sign her electrical box had been tampered with.

Bus buddy: A city resident said she was on the bus when another individual “threatened to have her beat up and made some other veiled threats as well,” Tuesday.

Unwired: Managers at Fort Steuben Apartments were doing a routine inspection and spotted furnace vents in two apartments were out of place, Tuesday. When they opened them, they said they realized copper wire was missing from both. They said the apartments were checked sometime in the last month.

Invited in: A city resident said her ex violated a protection order and was at her residence, Wednesday. She said he’d been staying with her the past two days because he’s homeless, but they’d started arguing “and she wanted him to leave and (be) arrested for violating” the court order. Police told her to “stop letting him inside” her home if she had an active protection order against him. She asked police to make sure he wasn’t in her residence, which they did. He was found walking on a nearby street and admitted he is aware of the order but denied being at her residence. Police told him he needed to stay away from her. Police said she called dispatchers “(about) 20 more times regarding being scared in her residence” and requested they search her premises again.

Paybacks: A city resident said during the past two nights “someone has been banging on her garage door and garbage cans,” Tuesday. She said she recently had a falling out with some friends and believes they might be involved.

Parental alert: Police spotted three vehicles cutting through the Fort Steuben Mall parking lot at a high rate of speed and stopped one of them, a black GMC Sierra, Tuesday. The officer saw the other two vehicles, an older Ford lifted truck and a white Jeep Compass, parking in the J.C. Penney lot so he had the GMC driver call them and instruct them to return. All three drivers plus a juvenile passenger were identified and warned for reckless operation of a motor vehicle on private property and told another infraction would result in them being arrested and their vehicles impounded.