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Police Beat

STEUBENVILLE POLICE

Investigation continues: The body of a man discovered Tuesday in an alley in downtown Steubenville has been sent to the Cuyahoga County Coroner’s Office for an autopsy, police said. The body was found around 2 p.m. next to a building in the 100 block of North Commercial Avenue. Police said they will “have to wait for those results to determine the cause of death.”

Neighborhood wars: A woman in the 1100 block of Arlington Avenue said her kids were playing outside Tuesday when a neighbor started recording them on his cell phone. She said she argued with the man, with whom she’s had “problems … since they moved in and feels as though he is harassing them.” She said earlier he’d “called the police and had their vehicle cited for illegal parking as well” and is aware “multiple people have protection orders against him.” Police told her they can’t stop someone from taking pictures or recording anyone in a public area and advised her to stay away from him.

The man involved complained to police the caller and her boyfriend “park their vehicle illegally, making it difficult for the post office to deliver mail.” He also claimed the couple “smokes marijuana … all day and are not parenting their children, resulting in the children running wild on peoples property and engaging in destructive behavior.” He said the kids have been “throwing rocks at his garage and are disrespectful to adults (including) cursing and flipping him off” and voiced concern over what he called the “accumulation of what he described as junk and toys all over the fence line and in the woods.” He also claimed the caller “threatened to have her man beat him up” and said all he wants is for the kids “to respect others and have the property cleaned up as well as have the parking issues resolved.” After speaking with all involved, police said they “all came to an understanding to cease all contact if they could not be respectful.”

Man charged: A Steubenville man was taken into custody after callers reported a couple arguing in the 800 block of Lincoln Avenue on Tuesday. Dispatchers tracked the pair on city cameras, and when police located the woman a block away, they said she claimed her male companion hit her in the face but didn’t know why and that he “just becomes angry and goes into a fit of rage” from time to time. She said she didn’t want to pursue charges and walked away. Police located the male, identified as Kenneth L. Payne, 49, no fixed address, near the entrance to Beatty Park and filed an assault charge against him.

Gate crasher: Police were told a man who wanted to enter Steubenville High School was advised “he was not welcome on the property” Tuesday. He left on foot.

Charged: Skylar M. Haines, 23, no fixed address, misdemeanor theft, Tuesday. Police said employees at Walmart claimed they saw Haines walk out of the store without paying for a Monster Energy drink and a pair of shoes they alleged he’d swapped for his old ones. Police allege Haines told them “he did not know whose shoes he was wearing and that he left his old shoes somewhere in the store.”

Served: Kevin L. Wilson Jr., 27, 503 Wallace St., Brilliant, warrant for failure to appear, Tuesday.

Code issues: Notices of violation were sent to owners/occupants of properties at 160 Brockton Road and 330 S. Third St., high grass/weeds.

JEFFERSON COUNTY SHERIFF

Adulting needed: A Rayland man who had been arguing with his girlfriend said he was concerned things were getting out of hand Sunday. He said she was supposed to take their daughter fishing but now she didn’t want to, and he just wanted her to leave, but deputies said she lives there and would have to be evicted. She said he’d been calling her names and “wouldn’t stop screaming at her and cussing at her to get out of the house.” Deputies told them they couldn’t stand there and referee their fights “and they both need to be adults about this.”

Washed up: Brooke County authorities reported finding an urn with a name on the bank of the Ohio River in Wellsburg. Deputies located the decedent’s widow, who assured them her late husband had been buried with family “and she didn’t know what to do with the urn so she … tossed it into (a) creek.”

Busted up: A Mingo Junction woman said her estranged husband was “throwing things and busting things in the house” and had scared their kids Sunday. He had left but returned after deputies arrived, and both said it never escalated to a physical altercation and they felt safe staying there.