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Today's birthday April 17 Andrea Claus, Brilliant Police Beat STEUBENVILLE Not his first rodeo: A Spring Avenue resident reported someone was “tied up in the basement of an abandoned building” Monday in the 200 block of S. 4th Street. Police said he “was intoxicated and left the area,” but they checked a number of abandoned properties anyway and didn’t find anyone in distress. He’d made a similar complaint earlier in the week at the same location. Drugs: Police responding to reports of a male in distress in a restroom at the mall Monday said he was “banging his ...

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Birthdays April 14 Archer Boyd, 3, Bloomingdale Mary Ann Shuma, Toronto April 15 Fred Pernick, Mingo Junction 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 ...

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Police Beat STEUBENVILLE POLICE Smashing melons: Police on patrol spotted Franciscan students in Belleview Park Sunday “smashing watermelons.” It was after midnight and one of them told police they were “cleaning up the mess and then going to leave.” Police told them the park closes at dusk. Busy day: A man was allegedly “causing problems” for customers at a downtown business Sunday, approaching them “and mumbling” and shoving a cigarette lighter at them. Police told him to stay away from the business and stop bothering people, but several hours later they found him in ...

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Today’s Birthdays April 14 Archer Boyd, 3, Bloomingdale Mary Ann Shuma, Toronto Police Beat Steubenville Police Party of one: A man told police “people were being held against their will” in a residence Saturday in the 200 block of S. 4th Street. Police said he was “highly intoxicated” and pointed them to the rear of a vacant residence, but when they looked inside they “did not hear anyone yelling for help nor did (they) find any open doors.” High school stuff: A man in the 1300 block of Park Street reported a disturbance Saturday. Police said when they tried to talk ...

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Birthdays April 11 Amelia McFarland, Steubenville April 12 Rich Grimm, Mingo Junction Sandy Corrigan, Mingo Junction Police Beat Steubenville Police Warming up: Someone spotted a fire burning in the 1300 block of University Boulevard Friday. Police said a man there was “collecting small sticks” for the fire and told police he “was trying to stay warm.” Police said the fire was on the concrete inside a fenced-in area where a dumpster would normally be placed. Steubenville firefighters arrived on scene and extinguished the flames. Holding her breath: A woman ...

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Police Beat Steubenville Police Big foot: A resident in the 1400 block of Pennsylvania Avenue reported a breaking and entering Monday. The resident said he returned home from work to discover a back window had been removed and “there was a footprint on the backdoor as well where it appeared someone tried to kick it in.” He thinks it was his ex-girlfriend who did it. Connected the dots: A woman in the 200 block of S. 5th Street told police Tuesday she thinks a man is living in her basement even though she told him to leave. She said she had told him he could stay in her basement ...