Hearing set in rape case

Hearing set in rape case
GIRARD -- A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Nov. 10 in municipal court for John T. Hudach of Shadow Run Apartments, Hubbard, who is charged with raping a 12-year-old boy.
Hudach, 46, was arraigned Tuesday before Magistrate Mark Finamore, who set bond at $50,000 on a charge of rape and disseminating material harmful to juveniles. He is being held in the Trumbull County Jail.
Hudach is accused of having sex with the boy in his apartment. Three other 12-year-old Hubbard boys had sex with Hudach, who gave them cigarettes in exchange for sex, city police said. It's also alleged that the boys viewed adult pornographic videos in his apartment.
Meetings canceled
MINERAL RIDGE -- Both the Weathersfield Township Zoning Commission, which would normally meet Nov. 10, and the Township Zoning Board of Appeals, scheduled to meet Nov. 11, have been canceled.
Public hearing scheduled
MINERAL RIDGE -- Weathersfield Township trustees will have a public hearing at 6 p.m. Tuesday preceding the regular trustee meeting at 7 p.m. in the township administration building.
Trustees will hold hearings on two zoning commission recommendations including approval of newly created township planned unit development definitions and guidelines, and rezoning of nearly 20 acres at 2722 W. Liberty St. from agricultural to residential-A for single-family homes. Developer Mark Jaber wants to buy the property from the Seventh-day Adventist Church to develop single-family homes.
Investigating crash, spill
GREENE -- The Southington post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating a crash and hazardous materials spill that shut down state Route 11 for several hours.
The crash occurred shortly before midnight on Route 11 in the township. A semi, driven by Edward C. Scutt, 57, of Red Creek, N.Y., was traveling southbound when Scutt lost control, drove off the right side of the roadway and overturned.
Scutt wasn't injured, but a portion of the nearly 45,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate he was transporting spilled onto the ground.
Trumbull County HazMat Team responded and determined the substance didn't pose a threat, the patrol said. Route 11 was closed for about five hours while traffic was detoured around the accident scene.
The driver was cited with failure to maintain control of his vehicle.
Public indecency charge
YOUNGSTOWN -- City police cited a man Tuesday for public indecency after they said they found him wearing no pants while mowing the front lawn of a house in the 1800 block of Bears Den Road shortly before noon.
Cited with a summons to appear in municipal court at 10 a.m. today was Rudolph P. Dettmer, 59, of Silica Road, North Jackson, who police said they saw wearing glasses and a gray flannel shirt, but exposing his bare buttocks in plain public view.
Police said they yelled to Dettmer, who went into a fenced-in area of the yard and returned wearing pants, buckling them up and pulling up the zipper, but wearing no shirt.
Police said Dettmer was uncooperative and argumentative when they asked him why he was cutting the grass with no pants on.