ABOUT THIS SERIES Part VI

Summary of police activity in Boardman:
June 10
Arrest: An 18-year-old man was arrested at his home in the 100 block of Beechwood Drive on charges of theft, assault and disorderly conduct. A Youngstown man reported being assaulted after he tried to escort someone off his property, and a woman reported a $150 cellular phone was forcibly stolen from her. The man had injuries to the right side of his face, as well as on his right shoulder and eye.
Assault: A Struthers man reported being assaulted at a residence in the 5800 block of West Boulevard. His left eye was swollen shut and he had an injury on the back of his head and the left side of his forehead.
Theft: An employee at TR Party Centre, 4172 Market St., reported 20 folding chairs and five vinyl-top tables had been rented, but not returned on the due date. The items were worth about $340.
Theft: An Austintown man discovered an $800 aluminum brake stolen off the bed of his pickup truck parked at Home Depot, 7001 Southern Blvd.
Theft: Someone took six golf grips valued at $10 each from Special Tee Golf, 7340 Market St.
Theft: An employee at Kmart, 1209 Boardman-Poland Road, reported someone took and gave away $19,133 worth of pills and merchandise.
Arrest: A 27-year-old Youngstown man was arrested on a felony charge of misuse of a credit card after a Niles woman reported her credit card had been misused at Acura of Boardman. She found $668.26 worth of suspicious charges.
Theft: Someone took a $30 set of earrings from the J.C. Penney store in the Southern Park Mall.
Theft: Police charged a 46-year-old Youngstown woman with felony theft after a Kmart employee reported the business was the victim of a theft-by-deception crime. She was accused of generating $3,000 worth of cash gift cards using fake prescriptions.
Theft: A Youngstown woman, 18, and a Boardman woman, 19, faced theft charges after $53.20 worth of undergarments was stolen from Wal-Mart, 1300 Doral Drive.
Auto theft: A Warren woman reported her 1992 Pontiac Transport stolen from Giant Eagle, 1201 Doral Drive.
Theft: A North Lima woman discovered her automated-teller-machine card stolen from the Travelers Inn, 6110 Market St.
Auto theft: A Leetonia man reported his 1989 Pontiac Limited Edition stolen from a parking lot in the 4000 block of Hillman Way.
Criminal mischief: Police discovered two residents in the 100 block of Afton Avenue had eggs thrown at their vehicles.
June 11
Arrest: Police arrested a 34-year-old Youngstown woman at her residence on two felony charges -- one each of receiving stolen property and forgery. An employee at Giant Eagle, 1201 Doral Drive, reported the business may have been the victim of a bad check.
Bad checks: A 38-year-old Youngstown man was arrested in the 700 block of Boardman-Poland Road and charged with felony passing bad checks. An employee at First Place Bank, 3900 Market St., reported 10 checks totaling $16,476.55 had been passed on a closed account.
Drugs: An 18-year-old man was arrested at his residence in the 100 block of Shields Road and cited on a charge of possession of drug paraphernalia.
Arrest: A 28-year-old Youngstown man was arrested at the Mahoning County jail on charges of theft, resisting arrest and obstructing official business after a Boardman woman told police a $3,300 ring had been stolen from a home in the 10 block of Woodview Drive.
Theft: Police arrested a 30-year-old Boardman woman on a theft charge. She was accused of stealing a $60 purse from Kaufmann's in the Southern Park Mall.
Drugs: A 23-year-old Boardman woman surrendered to police and faced a misdemeanor warrant charging her with possession of drug-abuse instruments.
Assault: A 39-year-old Campbell woman surrendered to police and was charged with assault. A Youngstown woman was not injured before she reported being assaulted while at Boardman Lanes.
Vandalism: Someone broke a glass fire extinguisher case and removed the extinguisher at Hampton Inn, 7395 Tiffany Blvd.
Theft: A woman discovered five charcoal grill covers had been removed from the front porch at her residence in the 3900 block of Risher Road.
Burglary: An apartment in the 100 block of Shields Road was burglarized after someone entered through a side window. A $2,000, 1/4-karat ring, an $825 TV and a DVD player were among the items taken.
Theft: An employee at Cornerstone Premium Motors, 8133 Market St., discovered a book of checks missing.
Theft: An employee of the Boardman Fire Department, 136 Boardman-Poland Road, reported someone borrowed a $65, department gas can and failed to return it.
Criminal damage/menacing: A Youngstown man reported his vehicle's passenger-side window had been broken, and that he had been threatened, while he was in the 300 block of Boardman-Poland Road.
Theft/criminal damage: A Salem woman came out of the Springfield Grille, 7413 Tiffany Blvd., and found her vehicle's passenger-side window broken. A $1,500 DVD monitor, two briefcases, two purses and $76.77 worth of assorted golfing merchandise were missing from the car.
Assault: A Canfield man reported being assaulted in the Toys 'R' Us parking lot, 317 Boardman-Poland Road. The victim suffered a swollen left eye and redness above the eye.