Steubenville Police

Higher power: A woman at a downtown business requested police assistance, Saturday. The woman said she was at the store “to go on a free shopping spree that was broadcast by someone while looking at the sky.” When they asked her if she was OK she said she was, so police told her there was no free shopping spree.

Gym issue: A Weirton man ended up in custody after an alleged altercation at a fitness center, Saturday. Police said Rhett W. Northcraft, 37, 114 Bell St., was booked into the Jefferson County jail on an assault charge. Police report Northcraft told them he’s an ex-professional cage fighter and was using a machine when another man who he described as “a bully inside the gym” walked up and asked him how many sets he had left. He said he told him one and they both walked away for a moment and when he turned around, he said the other man was removing his weights from the bar and said he “over-reacted and punched (him) in the head.” Police noted his knuckles were red but he had no other visible sign of injury. The other man said “he’d put his bag down close to the machine” and walked away, and when he went to his bag to get something out he was punched in the eye and then “tackled into a trash can.” Police said he did have a cut and his eye was swelling, and told them he wanted to pursue charges.

Lucky break: Police gave a man a ride home after a disturbance was reported in the 3800 block of Stratford Boulevard, Friday. The caller advised a man she had recently started dating had come to her house with his child and when she put the kid in time out, “he got upset and started an argument.” She said she told him to leave and when he tried to go out the door where she’d been standing, she claims he shoved her so she “punched him in the mouth.” He told police he didn’t shove her and just wanted to leave with his son as quickly as he could, and admitted he did try to move her out of his way in order to get his kid out of there. Neither of them had any sign of injury, nor did they wish to pursue the matter so police took the man and his son back to Follansbee as a courtesy.

Bad dreams: Police were asked to check on a resident in the 100 block of N. 4th Street, Friday. When they got to his apartment, he told police he’d “had a nightmare and (threw) to glass bottles on the floor, breaking them.” He assured officers he was fine now that he was awake.

Drove off: A woman said she let a female use her car while she visited a friend at a Pennsylvania Avenue location but the woman hadn’t returned it, Saturday. She told police the passenger asked to take the car to a relative’s home in the city to “smoke a blunt” and asked her to pick her up at midnight but she never did. She said she was concerned the woman took her car to Mansfield to visit family members.