Austintown vandalism
Austintown vandalism
AUSTINTOWN -- Police are investigating reports of criminal damaging filed over the weekend, including five reports from the Wickliffe and Wedgewood areas. The Wickliffe and Wedgewood reports state that a car windshield was smashed Saturday night or Sunday morning on Celeste Circle; two car windows and a door handle were broken during the same time on Cumberland Drive; someone drove on a lawn Friday night or Saturday morning on Lancaster Drive; a window on a home was cracked Friday night on South Edgehill Avenue; and a car and a window were spray-painted two weeks ago on Nottingham Avenue. That report was filed Friday afternoon. Police also received a report that a mailbox was smashed Friday morning on Kirk Road.
Intruder in the house
AUSTINTOWN -- A South Raccoon Road woman woke up Friday night to find an unknown man running from her living room. The woman woke up in her bedroom at about 11 p.m. when she heard glass breaking. She went to her living room and found the man leaving her apartment. Her sliding glass door had been smashed. The woman lives in a second-floor apartment, so the man had to climb over a balcony railing to smash the window.
Man injured in fight
AUSTINTOWN -- A North Navarre Avenue man was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center early Saturday with a cut he said was caused by a cue stick during a fight. Doctors, however, told police that Michael Grate Jr.'s wound was caused by a knife or an ax, and that Grate's kidneys had been injured by the weapon. Grate, 26, is in stable condition at the hospital today. He had a 3- to 4-inch cut on his lower back. One of the men involved in the fight, 19, also of North Navarre Avenue, was charged by police with assault on a police officer, resisting arrest and obstructing official business.