Officials determine unsafe living conditions

Officials determine unsafe living conditions
NILES -- City health and zoning officials determined a Wilson Street house has unsafe living conditions after the man inside was found by police lying on the floor and bleeding.
Police were called to the home in the 100 block of Wilson Street at 9:17 a.m. Monday and found a 50-year-old man, who was not identified, lying on the floor, gasping for air and bleeding from the mouth. Crews from the Niles Fire Department and an ambulance crew arrived to take the man to Forum Health Trumbull Memorial Hospital, but a condition report was not available.
Inspectors from the city health and zoning departments were called to the home and found deplorable living conditions, but a description of what was found was not available. A dog and a cat were taken by the Animal Welfare League, according to dispatch logs from the police department.
Show Your Spiritcelebration planned
LIBERTY -- Township officials will host a Show Your Spirit Community Celebration Night on Wednesday at 7 at the Liberty High School football field. The event serves as a kickoff to the high school football season and gives residents a chance to meet participants in fall sports and to see the high school marching band perform. Live entertainment, food and a 50/50 drawing are also scheduled, as is a fireworks extravaganza by Pyrotechnico. The event is free and is sponsored by the Liberty business community, the board of education, township trustees and the park improvement committee.
Man is shot twice
WARREN -- A 41-year-old Williamsburg Street N.W. man is in stable condition this morning at St. Elizabeth Health Center after being shot twice. Police said DeWayne Hickman was at an apartment on Parkman Road around 8:45 p.m. Tuesday when he was shot. Police declined to give a motive for the shooting. A suspect is in custody but no charges have been filed.
Hearing rescheduled in kidnapping, assault case
NILES -- A city man accused of kidnapping and assaulting his ex-girlfriend will return to court later this week.
Jon Jones, 29, who lists a Fulton Street address as his home, was scheduled to appear Monday in Niles Municipal Court for a preliminary hearing on charges of kidnapping and aggravated burglary. Judge Thomas W. Townley continued the hearing to 9 a.m. Wednesday after the victim failed to appear to testify.
According to police reports, a Fulton Avenue woman told police she woke up Thursday morning and found Jones, whom she identified as her ex-boyfriend and the father of her children, hiding in her bathroom behind her shower curtain.
The woman told police Jones placed coverings over the windows and held her captive all day, repeatedly beating her and threatening her. According to reports, friends of the woman arrived at the house, discovered the situation and called police. Jones remains in the Trumbull County Jail.
Timber-cutting contract
GIRARD -- Council President Reynald Paolone said council will meet in special session at 5 p.m. Wednesday in the old city council chambers to award a contract to cut timber around Girard Lakes. The city received nine bids earlier this month for the first phase of the timbering project, which would be a revenue-producing venture for the city.
Woman faces charge
GIRARD -- An arrest warrant has been issued for a second woman in connection with the taking $3,000 from a Girard man.
Capt. Frank Bigowsky said Susan Ferry of Chestnut Street, Weathersfield Township, is charged with aggravated robbery.
Also charged in the case is Michelle Cox, a homeless 26-year-old, who is in the Trumbull County Jail.
Charles Kohut of East Main Street told police he was swimming at his home with the two women Aug. 15 when he was struck over the head and forced to give up the combination to his safe.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Cox at 1 p.m. Wednesday in municipal court. She was captured in Mercer, Pa.