Police seize drugs, guns on East Side

Police seize drugs,guns on East Side
YOUNGSTOWN -- Police responding to a 911 call about marijuana plants seized suspected marijuana, cocaine, heroin, a loaded gun and drug paraphernalia on the city's East Side.
Police in an unmarked car responded about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday to a home in the 2400 block of Datson Avenue.
Taken from the residence were 27 suspected marijuana plants ranging from 6 feet to 10 feet high that were growing along a fence; suspected ground marijuana in plastic bags; packs of suspected heroin in bags of rice; suspected marijuana seeds in plastic containers; suspected dried marijuana leaves in a paper bag; marijuana pipes and a loaded 9 mm gun. Charges filed were unclear in the preliminary police report.
Culvert replacements
SALEM -- Seacrist Road, between state Route 165 and Middletown Road in Goshen Township, will be closed from Monday through Sept. 23 for a culvert replacement by the Mahoning County Engineer's Department. Traffic will be detoured along Middletown, Duck Creek and South Range roads.
The engineer's department also will close Knauf Road, between U.S. Route 224 and Berlin Station Road in Ellsworth Township, for a culvert replacement. That job will begin Tuesday and be completed Wednesday. Traffic will be redirected along Route 224, Crory Road and Leffingwell Road.
Weathersfield recycling
MINERAL RIDGE -- Weathersfield Township trustees will continue to provide cardboard recycling for residents at the administration building's recycling bins until Dec. 31. The township will pay Phoenix Disposal Inc., Austintown, $65 a month from Friday until Dec. 31 to manage the cardboard recycling box once a week.
The Geauga-Trumbull Solid Waste Management District notified trustees in August it would stop picking up cardboard for recycling Friday because of funding cuts. Bins at the administration building are also provided for recycling newspapers, magazines, plastic and glass.
Sexual-assault report
YOUNGSTOWN -- A 27-year-old Canfield woman reported being pulled into a car on Almyra Avenue early Wednesday and sexually assaulted.
The woman told police that she got a call from a female friend asking for a ride from a house in the 400 block of Almyra. When she arrived, a man got out of his car and pulled her into the vehicle.
He pulled over in the 400 block of Ravenwood Avenue and as she tried to get out of a window, he pulled down her pants and performed a sex act on her.
The woman eventually escaped and called police. She refused treatment.
McDonald schools
McDONALD -- The board of education has changed the date of its regular monthly meeting to 7:30 p.m. Sept. 26 in the high school library. The board is usually scheduled to meet at 7:30 p.m. the third Monday of the month.
One of two public forums on a 4.9-mill permanent improvement levy to generate $248,462 annually, which the board has placed on the Nov. 8 ballot, will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the high school auditorium. A second forum is scheduled for 7 p.m. Nov. 2 at the school. The levy would generate funds to pay for a new high school sports complex, locker rooms at the high school, gym improvements and a new bus garage.
DUI checkpoints set
NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- The Lawrence County DUI Enforcement Team will conduct DUI checkpoints throughout the northern end of Lawrence County through Sunday. Participating police departments are Neshannock, New Wilmington and Northwest Regional police. The DUI Enforcement Team is funded by a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation and the Pennsylvania DUI Association.