10th charge added

10th charge added
GIRARD -- Liberty police have added another charge against a Brookfield man accused of squirting semen on a woman. He now faces 10 charges.
Robert L. Gibson, 38, of South Albright Road, pleaded innocent Wednesday in Girard Municipal Court to a charge of criminal mischief.
He posted a $1,000 personal recognizance bond.
Liberty Sgt. Don Mills said Gibson reportedly squirted semen on a woman July 9 in Giant Eagle on Belmont Avenue.
Mills said Gibson apparently used the plunger portion of a hypodermic syringe, without the needle.
Gibson has been charged by Niles and Howland police with eight counts of criminal mischief and one count of aggravated trespass in what authorities in those communities describe as similar cases.
Fatal car accident
BAZETTA -- Charges are pending in a one-car accident in which a Warren man was killed.
The Warren post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol said Theodore Fittipaldo III, 22, Celestial Drive, Warren, was traveling southbound on state Route 46 about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday when his car went into a ditch and flipped over.
He and his passenger, James Wherry, 21, of Anderson Avenue, were ejected. Wherry was killed and Fittipaldo remained in critical condition this morning in St. Joseph Health Center.
The patrol said alcohol is suspected to have played a role in the crash.
Indecent exposure
NILES -- A Girard woman reported a man exposing himself outside a business at Eastwood Mall.
The woman told police she was leaving Bank One on Wednesday night when the man pulled up to her in a silver or gray pickup truck, got out and was exposed.
He then got back into the truck and drove toward Warren.
Other people at the mall reported a man in a silver or gray pickup truck making obscene gestures at women about the same time.
Another woman reported a man exposing himself outside the Ski Chalet on U.S. 422, earlier this week.
WWII vet gets diploma
MINERAL RIDGE -- Weathersfield Board of Education has awarded a high school diploma to World War II veteran Angelo J. Brunelli of Phillips Avenue, Niles. Brunelli left high school as a senior in 1943 to join the Army to fight in World War II in the Pacific.
Superintendent Rocco Aducci presented Brunelli, with his wife, Evelyn, at his side, his diploma at Wednesday's school board meeting.
Brunelli was in an anti-aircraft division attached to the 10th Army, and his last campaign was in Okinawa. He left the Army in 1945.
The Brunellis have a daughter, Pamela, and a granddaughter, Christina, both of Florida.
Illegal dumping
SOUTHINGTON -- Zoning inspector Sam Lee reported to township trustees Wednesday that illegal dumping is an ongoing problem on township roads, adding that cleanup costs are unfairly coming out of taxpayers' pockets.
"Some people drive up these roads and just open up the back of their trucks and dump it out right on the road," he said.
In the future, anyone caught dumping will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, he told the trustees.
Most dumping complaints have come from the Stroup Hickock Road area. Lee said that he is working with the Trumbull County Sheriff's Department and that anyone who sees illegal dumping should call the zoning office at (330) 889-2001.