West Virginia State Police

Charged: Michael T. Stewart, 41, 215 Ritchie Ave., Weirton, fugitive from justice, Monday.

Steubenville Police

Money maker: A homeless man was booked into the Jefferson County Jail with no bond after employees at Wal-Mart stopped him from leaving the store with a speaker he hadn’t paid for, Tuesday. Police said Anthony Beckett, 22, was charged with petit theft and possession of drug paraphernalia after he allegedly told them, “he often steals speakers and sells them to make money,” which he claimed he needed “to support his sick daughter.” Two “push rods” and a small plastic container with white residue were found in his jeans, and corrections officers spotted two crack pipes in shorts he was wearing under the jeans when he went through the body scanner at the jail, police said.

Causing problems: A Pennsylvania Avenue resident told police the father of her children “came to her residence unannounced and began unloading her personal property onto her porch,” Tuesday. She said he has an order of protection against her but she wanted it documented because it’s “an ongoing issue.”

Booked: Shaylyn N. James, 40, 180 N. Fourth St., Apt. 613, Steubenville, assault. James was allegedly arguing with a man in the 100 block of North Fourth Street who tried to walk away, “push(ing) him and, when he turned around, smack(ing) him in the face,” police report. The male told police he wanted to pursue charges and a protection order. Police said James told them the male “keeps harassing her and during the argument … she smacked him in the face because she was upset.” James was booked into the county jail without bond on an assault charge, police said.

Bumped: A Crestline Avenue man walking in the alley behind PNC Bank said he was “struck in the shoulder by a white pickup truck’s side mirror,” Tuesday. He said he wasn’t hurt but wanted to be checked out at the hospital. The driver left the scene.

Not wanted: A Lincoln Avenue resident who was letting a family member stay in his detached garage said a female showed up one day and began moving her (things) and cats into the garage” despite his objections, Tuesday. He said he didn’t want her there, so police advised him to box up her things “and set (them) outside for her to collect without having to make contact or causing further issues with anyone.” He said he’d give her 24 hours to collect her things.

Out to get her: A State Street resident told police a man is “making threats to cause issues at her residence” to cause problems for her with her landlord, Tuesday. She said a female has also “made threats in the past to assault her and cause damage to her vehicle.” Police advised her what she’d have to do to obtain a protection order.

Stuck: A Colliers woman who hit a curb at the mall told police she wasn’t going to move it because she “didn’t want to scrape her car.” Tuesday. Police told her she’d have to “continue driving over the curb” to free it or call a tow truck. She called for the tow.

Hit-skipped: A Wal-Mart customer said employees told her a woman at the wheel of a white Kia sedan had hit her car, Tuesday. Police said the Kia driver pulled into the parking spot opposite the victim’s car and “hit the victim’s car hard enough for it to visibly move backward.” They said the front of the victim’s vehicle was “severely damaged.”

Jefferson County Sheriff

Low blow: A Richmond area resident said someone is using her late husband’s personal information to run up credit card bills, Tuesday. She said she got a notice from a Wal-Mart that “his order is ready for pickup” in another state. When she contacted the retailer, she learned that since his death the thief had opened four credit card accounts in his name.

Piggish behavior: A woman told deputies she wants to press charges against her daughter and her daughter’s boyfriend because they “destroyed a couch” at a property she is renting, Monday. She said the two “(had) cut it and poured cat litter everywhere,” and also spilled melted wax. She said she was evicted from the property “due to them ruining the place.” Deputies told her the courts are her only recourse.

Concerned: A Columbus woman told deputies her mother and her husband had been fighting all day because “he thinks she’s having an affair with her neighbor” and wanted deputies to check on her, Monday. Mom was talking to her daughter when she came to the door and told deputies she needed a break from the fighting and fell asleep and didn’t hear her daughter calling.

Charged: Ryan L. Crawford, 22, Steubenville, resisting arrest, possession of drugs and attempted grand theft, Sunday. A caller allegedly spotted Crawford in the driver’s seat of his car with his keys and pulled him out of the vehicle, deputies said. They said Crawford struggled with the owner of the vehicle and with them; Charles Butler, 28, 11472 state Route 150, Rayland, driving under suspension and second offense driving under the influence, Saturday. When questioned, Butler allegedly admitted he’d had five Twisted Teas, deputies said.

Trespassing: West Virginia authorities told deputies they were pursuing someone caught on Brown’s Island asked them to be on the lookout for them trying to get back across the bridge, Tuesday. Deputies said they remained there for “an extensive period of time” but no one crossed the bridge, though they did find a Chevy Cobalt parked in the vicinity that might have been involved.

Hanging around: A resident living along township Road 227, Richmond, said a man in an SUV “keeps sitting at the end of the driveway,” Tuesday. The homeowner said when she asked the man what he was doing he “got back in (his vehicle) and left,” then returned while she was talking to deputies. He was gone when they arrived.

Served: Labrea Kisner, 30, 823 2nd St., Brilliant, warrant for complicity to theft, Friday.

Cited: Isabel Segoviano-Gonzalez, no age or address listed, driving under suspension, Saturday.