Stolen check charge

Stolen check charge
YOUNGSTOWN -- When Donald J. Pratt tried to cash one of several checks stolen Wednesday from a 79-year-old East Boston Avenue woman, National City Bank on North Garland Avenue turned him over to police. Pratt, 34, of Zedaker Street, was arrested on a charge of receiving stolen property. The woman told police that Pratt has been to her house twice, looking for work. The woman returned home Wednesday to find the place ransacked and her checks missing.
Snow blower stolen
YOUNGSTOWN -- A new snow blower worth $650 was reported missing Wednesday from a garage in the 4000 block of Euclid Avenue, where a window had been broken. Police found wheel tracks in the front yard. A check of the broken window revealed muddy glove prints.
Police seize gun, bullets
CAMPBELL -- Police confiscated a .40 caliber handgun and several rounds of ammunition from a car parked in the 100 block of Monroe Street about 11:45 p.m. Tuesday.
According to the report, police were called to the area for an unknown disturbance. When they arrived, several men were congregated outside. As police were questioning them, an officer spotted the handgun on the front seat of a parked car.
The gun had one live round in the chamber and seven live rounds in the magazine. A box of .38 caliber ammunition and a black gun holster were also found in the car, which police impounded.
The 1985 Pontiac four-door is registered to a Youngstown man.
Stolen-pill probe
STRUTHERS -- Police are investigating a Sexton Street woman accused of stealing at least 20 prescription pills from a neighbor's bedroom. According to police reports, the woman went to a neighbor's apartment Saturday and asked the neighbor's 14-year-old daughter for Xanax, a drug used to treat anxiety. The girl told police the woman was intoxicated and intimidated her into stealing the medication from her mother's bedroom. The girl also told police that the neighbor said she would pay her $80 for cooperating.
Assault charges dropped
STRUTHERS -- Police released Leewayne Rowe, 32, of McClure Street, who was expected to be arraigned in municipal court on assault charges Wednesday. The charges were dropped after the 40-year-old Lowellville woman who accused him of tackling her as she walked along Lowellville Road early Tuesday and dragging her along the sidewalk declined to sign a complaint. A witness called police and, according to reports, the woman suffered minor injuries as a result of the fight.
Gun charge filed
YOUNGSTOWN -- A 9mm handgun was found under the driver's seat of a 1982 Buick, which had a cracked windshield and expired plates. The car was stopped Wednesday on Shirley Road at the Interstate 680 overpass, police said. The driver, James Phillips, 18, of Liberty Road, was arrested on a charge of carrying a concealed weapon and given a court summons for the expired plates.
911 cell-phone calls
WARREN -- The Ohio State Highway Patrol has agreed to continue handling cellular 911 phone calls in Trumbull County, at least for now.
The patrol will answer 911 calls picked up by several cell phone towers under construction. Where to route these calls had been a matter of dispute between Trumbull County 911 and the patrol.
The two agencies have agreed that the issue should be discussed again if 911 is able to recall employees in the future, said 911 director Tim Gladis.
OSHP answers more than 20,000 emergency cell phone calls from Trumbull County each year, only a few of which are for the traffic and accident investigation services the agency provides. Most callers are transferred to Trumbull County 911.
Donation to agency
LIBERTY -- Liberty High School's Student Government Association and its adviser, Louise Mason, have donated $2,500 to Northeast Ohio Adoption Services of Warren. The students raised the money through a variety of events. They voted to donate the money to support NOAS, an agency that finds adoptive homes for school-aged kids. There are more than 6,000 children waiting for homes in Ohio, the NOAS says.