Police Beat

STEUBENVILLE POLICE

Slap happy: A man at a Maryland Avenue business said he was assaulted Sunday. He said he was near the check-out area when another man approached him and “made a comment that (he) was talking about his children,” then slapped him three times. The victim’s face was red with “what appeared to be the beginning of two black eyes forming.” He told police he wants to file charges.

Lame excuse: Employees reported a male causing a disturbance Sunday at Kroger. The woman said she heard the man “mumble profanities toward her while she was shopping,” so she confronted him and said he began to yell and said that he was going to wait for her outside. Police said the man claimed the woman had “confronted him and threatened him for no reason,” and when they told him what she’d said, he “stated that he was just singing a song and did not mean to aim any of the words to her.” The two of them were separated and went their separate ways.

Spilling over: A Lovers Lane resident told police Saturday she has been having trouble with a neighbor who puts lawn decorations in her yard. She told police all she wants is for the neighbor to remove the items, which the neighbor agreed to do, and police left, only to be called back a half hour later. This time the woman said she was “involved in a heated argument” with the neighbor, who she claimed was “yelling and cursing and starting to get out of control.” She was told to go into her house so police could speak with the neighbor, who said she and her husband removed the items as requested but, in the process, the caller “came out and began to argue and scream at them” and pushed her. Police stood by while they removed some of their shrubbery, flowers and landscaping border from the side of their home. Police told them all to “stay clear of each other.”

Starting young: A caller reported being followed early Sunday morning by “a group of people and one had a gun.” Police determined the individuals involved were juveniles.

Overindulged: A man was struggling to help a woman to her feet Sunday on Franklin Street at Sixth Avenue. Police helped him get her off the ground, but both refused medical attention and would not identify themselves.

Dried out: Police were asked to do a welfare check Saturday on a man in the 100 block of N. Fourth Street who was in distress. The man told them he was dehydrated, so an officer went to Speedway and obtained two large bottles of water for him.

Fraud: A Opal Boulevard resident said someone used her debit card information to make two purchases totaling more than $1,400 from Alibaba.com.

Summons issued: Reginald Johnson Jr., 25, 115 Wetzel St., Weirton, was charged with theft.

Cited: Jeffrey Scott, 34, 815 N. Sixth Ave., Steubenville, failure to control after a two-vehicle crash Saturday in the 900 block of N. Seventh Street; Mikeala Rood, 24, 901 Bank St., Apt. 48, Toronto, driving under suspension.

JEFFERSON COUNTY SHERIFF

Can’t do that: A Yorkville man told deputies Sunday his landlord “removed all his belongings from his residence and may have had his vehicle towed.” He admitted being a month behind on his rent but said he had never been served with an eviction notice.

Lights out: A Wintersville resident just released from rehab after a jail stay said Sunday someone had cut an extension cord she was using to power her apartment until she could get the electric turned back on. She said while she was away in rehab, someone stole government checks meant for her that she would have used to pay her electric bill. Later, another tenant called “hysterical and crying” because the woman who had been released from rehab had shown up at her door “screaming and threatening her” and multiple others in the complex had come to her apartment and threatened her.

Wanted her gone: A caller reported a County Road 54 in Richmond resident was “attempting to push her Jeep into the roadway with a tractor” Sunday. Deputies located the man, who told them he wanted her off his property and said it never became physical. She left.