Felony assault charge
Felony assault charge
BOARDMAN -- Township police have charged Marsha Genetta, 65, of N. Beacon Drive, Austintown, with felony assault on a police officer and misdemeanor resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.
According to police reports, a township police officer was treated at St. Elizabeth Health Center just after 11 a.m. Feb. 12 after he was punched in the chest and kicked while trying to arrest Genetta at a Sahara Trail doctor's office.
Charged in damaging
BOARDMAN -- Police have charged Robin Baldwin, 53, of 71 Hill Drive, Poland, with misdemeanor criminal damaging after an altercation with Poland School Board member Frank DiVito at the English Pub on Boardman-Poland Road Feb. 13.
Baldwin's son, Rob Baldwin, 28, also faces charges here in relation to the altercation.
Both men face charges in Poland after an altercation with DiVito's wife, Poland Trustee Annette DiVito, at the DiVito home Sunday.
The Baldwins are free on bond.
New police car
LOWELLVILLE -- A new cruiser, delivered Feb. 14, is on the road. The 2004 Ford Crown Victoria cost $18,477 with the trade-in of the police department's 1999 Ford Crown Victoria cruiser.
Texoma Ford of Denison, Texas, provided the car after submitting a bid lower than what the village could have bought the car for using the statewide co-op program.
Texoma submitted a bid of $20,500 plus $2,477 for the emergency equipment package.
Trade-in credit for the 1999 cruiser was $4,500, village officials said.
The department's second cruiser is a 2002 Ford Crown Victoria. It sustained minor damage earlier this week after a Monroe Street man kicked the window and frame out of the rear driver's side door after being placed inside the vehicle.
Afterward, James Jonda, 18, was charged with criminal damaging, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and assault.
He is slated to appear in Struthers municipal court for a preliminary hearing Monday.
Drug trafficking charge
YOUNGSTOWN -- Carvilla Gilbert Jr., 30, of East Chalmers Avenue was arrested at 11:30 p.m. Thursday and charged with aggravated trafficking in drugs after police found a bag of suspected powdered cocaine in his vehicle, reports show.
Police said they approached Gilbert in the 300 block of West Earle Avenue when he parked his vehicle on the sidewalk, which is prohibited.
Car shot up
YOUNGSTOWN -- A 40-year-old East Lucius Avenue woman told police her car was shot up about 2:30 a.m. today as she drove on Southern Boulevard.
She told police the shooter was a woman she had argued with at a bar.
Facing discipline
STRUTHERS -- A 13-year-old middle school pupil faces expulsion or suspension after taking a pocketknife to school, police said.
According to a police report, another pupil told the school principal that the boy had the knife in the inside pocket of his jacket and that he was planning to fight with another boy.
The principal confiscated the weapon and contacted police.
The school has a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to knives.
Money stolen in burglary
CAMPBELL -- A 78-year-old Devitt Avenue woman told police a burglar took $8,660 and a cigar box containing a collection of coins from other countries.
According to police, the burglar smashed a rear window with a piece of concrete and reached inside and opened the lock.
The woman told police she had left her house for less than half an hour Wednesday and found it ransacked and the money gone when she returned about 8:20 p.m.
Vandals break windows
STRUTHERS -- Police are searching for vandals who used a BB gun to break windows at two homes and the rear window of a parked car.
According to reports, a 77-year-old Audrey Lane man heard a loud noise at the front of his house about 8:10 p.m. Wednesday and discovered a BB hole in the front window.
He didn't report the damage until Thursday.
A 57-year-old 10th Street woman also discovered a BB hole in the front window of her house and told police she thinks it was damaged late Wednesday or early Thursday. She discovered the hole in her window midday Thursday.
She also discovered the rear window of a car parked in her front yard had been shattered.