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Police Beat

STEUBENVILLE POLICE

Match game: A resident said his neighbor “set some bushes on fire” Friday in the 400 block of Maxwell Avenue. He said she’d come on his property a few hours before “and accused him of causing Child Protective Services to take her child from her.” The caller had video of the woman walking to her house “after the set the fire and it appeared she was holding some type of container.” Police said the area in question “smelled heavily of lighter fluid or some type of fire accelerant.”

Expensive lesson: A Dayton juvenile told police he was robbed at gunpoint in the 700 block of Brady Avenue Friday. He said he “came to Steubenville to smoke marijuana with a male he met on Snapchat through a mutual friend,” but when they met behind the Brady Avenue residence “the male pulled a gun out and pointed it at (him).” The juvenile said the suspect fled through an alleyway with $420 that belonged to him.

Pushy: A woman handed a clerk two obviously fake $20 bills Friday to pay for her purchase at the Sunoco station on S. 7th Street, police said. When the cashier noticed both bills were stamped with “copy money” on the front and back, the woman told the cashier “she had to take it as currency, even though it was fake.”

Jump shot: Police were told a “large group of females” were arguing Saturday in a parking lot in the 800 block of Market Street, and one of them broke a window in a white Soul. A woman told police she’d been jumped and her window had been broken.

Not so funny: Motorists reported juveniles “laying in the center of the roadway” Thursday on Cleveland Avenue at Pico Street. They were gone when police checked the area.

Making a splash: Police had to shoo kids away who’d been swimming in the fountain at Fort Steuben Park Thursday, telling them they can’t swim in it. The kids left the area.

Tit-for-tat: A woman living downtown told police her children’s father was upset Thursday when she told him he couldn’t use her car and grabbed her keys and took them with him when he left. He told police he did take them but he threw them because she’d thrown some of his belongings on the ground. Police separated the two of them for the night.

Stolen: An Oregon Avenue resident told police someone stole her children’s bike Sunday. She said one of her kids left the bike in the alley in the 700 block of Brady Avenue “and would not give it back until she spoke with an adult.” She said her ex-husband tried to get the bike back but the woman would not give it to him, then the woman left it outside and it “was no longer there.”

G.O.A.T.: Police helped a good Samaritan on state Route 7 “load a stray goat in her car” Saturday.

Dump job: A Euclid Avenue resident told dispatchers his ex-wife damaged his car, but later admitted to police his fiancée who lives with him was involved and that she actually did not damage his truck. He said they started arguing because he thought she was cheating on him and she “attempted to dump water in his gas tank but he grabbed it.” She said the man was “mad at her and dropped her off on the overpass and made her walk home” and then threw a lot of her clothes and other items outside, but picked them up before police arrived. He told police he no longer wanted her there, but his fiancée said she’s been living there for months. Police told him they couldn’t make her leave and advised the two of them to separate for the evening.

Lay off it: A couple was arguing Sunday in a parking lot in the 100 block of N. 5th Street. A female involved in the dispute said it was strictly verbal and her male companion “had been drinking and she wanted to get away from him for a while so she went for a walk,” but he followed her. The male said he didn’t want her to walk around by herself so he followed her. She agreed to go back to the residence and he agreed to leave for the rest of the night.

Trifecta: Callers reported a man on McDowell at Ridge avenues Thursday “drinking in the roadway.” Police said they found him “with vodka in his hand,” but they did not see him drinking. After speaking with him, they said he left the area. On Friday, police were told the same man was “standing in the middle of the road” in the 3100 block of Johnson Road. Police said he was standing on the sidewalk when they located him, so they did not observe any violations and he left the area. An hour later, callers said the same man was “acting strange” outside a Hollywood Plaza store, but he told them everything was fine and he did not need assistance.

No follow through: A Terrace Avenue resident said Thursday she purchased a motorcycle for her boyfriend, but the seller “was attempting to take the bike back.” The former owner said the buyer had paid her $1,000 in cash so she let him take the motorcycle home but claims he still owes her another $900. Police told her she would have to go to court to resolve the problem.

Oversight: A woman told police she needed their help to get her things from her mother’s home Saturday. She said she’d recently moved out of the residence and her mother “made comments over text message stating she was not going to turn over the rest” of her things. Police stood by as she grabbed her possessions.

Kids play: A resident in the 1500 block of Maryland Avenue complained that kids were shooting Orbeez guns near cars Thursday. Police said the kids were just sitting on the porch when they were located but were advised not to shoot them near cars.

Damaged: A vehicle parked outside Club 106 was keyed Saturday. He said he noticed the damage after he got home.

A Lincoln Avenue resident said a neighborhood kid scratched her car with an umbrella Thursday. Police spoke with the child and her mother and reported the girl admitted using the umbrella to scratch the car.

Booked: Nyzaire N. King, 26, 1337 Euclid Ave., Steubenville, obstruction. King also was served with a warrant from Harrison County. Police said King took off running when he saw them, ignoring commands to stop. He eventually lay down and surrendered in an empty field just east of Highland Avenue, police said.

Booked: Joshua J. Reese, 36, 3788 County Road 25, Rayland, warrants alleging endangering children, possession of drugs and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Also booked: Russell Lynch Jr., 47, 643 Joffre Cherry Valley Rd., Burgettstown, bench warrant from Steubenville Municipal Court alleging failure to complete community service.

Cited: Kaylin Clark, no age or address listed, blocking a driveway in the 600 block of Oakmont Avenue.