8 counts of drug trafficking

8 counts of drug trafficking
GIRARD -- A 43-year-old man who a Trumbull County grand jury secretly indicted on eight counts of drug trafficking is in custody.
Tim Glass was arrested Monday by city police at his home at 352 Illinois Ave., police Capt. Frank Bigowsky said.
Bigowsky said the investigation began in July when neighbors complained about people entering and leaving the house at all hours. He said drug users from around the area went to the house, bought drugs and used them there.
Police seized numerous types of suspected drug paraphernalia. Glass is in the Trumbull County jail pending arraignment in common pleas court.
Two petitions rejected
WARREN -- The Trumbull County Board of Elections has rejected petitions to place two local options on the March ballot because they had too few valid signatures.
The board determined that the petition for an option to allow Sunday beer and wine sales at Dawlah Discount Corp., in Warren Precinct 6E, had only 79 valid signatures, not the 80 required.
The petition for an option in McDonald Precinct B, to allow Sunday beer and wine sales at Blue Devil Sports Bar & amp; Grill on Ohio Avenue, was rejected after the board determined it contained 43 signatures, rather than the 69 required.
Two sheets of signatures were rejected because board staff determined that people had been allowed to sign for their spouses.
Woman's home broken into
WARREN -- A 29-year-old woman told police that three men kicked in the back door of her McKinley Street N.W. home Monday afternoon. When she yelled out at them, they fled the area, the woman said.
Several other city residents reported burglaries Monday as well. Residents of Atlantic Street N.E., Cornell Street N.E. and Oregon Street N.W. reported people getting into their homes and taking items and cash.
McKinley holiday closings
NILES -- The McKinley Memorial Library, McKinley Museum and McKinley Birthplace Home and Research Center will be closed Wednesday and Thursday for Christmas and for New Year's Day. They all will be open regular hours on the weekends.
Officers donate bicycles
NILES -- Needy children were treated Monday evening to Christmas presents from the city's police department.
Officers presented 22 children with bicycles, said Maurice Guarino, safety director.
Families were chosen by the local chapter of the American Red Cross, Guarino said.
Checks, stamp conspiracy
CLEVELAND -- A federal grand jury has indicted four Mahoning County residents on charges that they conspired to buy more than $10,000 worth of postage stamps at Mahoning Valley post offices in March and April 2002 using bad checks to resell them to local residents at less than face value.
Indicted on charges of theft of public money and conspiracy to commit theft of public money were: James K. Thomas, 37, of LeMans Drive; Elena Adams-O'Connell, 49, of Birch Street; and Leonard E. Mayo, 51, and Junell Brown, 55, both of Meridian Road. The checks were written on closed bank accounts or accounts with insufficient funds, the U.S. attorney said.
Easter Seals' $25,000 aid
COLUMBUS -- Attorney General Jim Petro awarded $25,000 in funding to Easter Seals of Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties. The discretionary funding is made available through various charitable gambling settlements reached on behalf of the state.
Easter Seals was chosen to receive funding because of its continued efforts to help Ohio's adults and children with special needs.
Employee sues for damage
YOUNGSTOWN -- A Liberty couple is suing the wife's employer, Best Buy, over damage the husband's car suffered when the Boardman store's parking lot flooded last summer.
Ann Grove of East Liberty Street is seeking unspecified damages in the suit, filed Monday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court. The suit says poor engineering and maintenance caused runoff from heavy rains to pool in the store's employee parking lot, where Grove had parked the car of her husband, Jason.
It says the car was damaged to the point of being a total loss. It does not say what make, model or year the car was.
The parking lot of the store on Boardman-Poland Road was among several area parking lots and properties that were flooded during torrential rains in July and August.