Clean up property, trustees tell owner

The owner's trial on animal cruelty charges is pending.
By DENISE DICK
VINDICATOR STAFF WRITER
BOARDMAN -- The owner of a Melrose Avenue house where two dogs perished last month has 30 days to clean up the property or the township will demolish the house and send her the bill.
Trustees this week, at the request of Darren Crivelli, zoning inspector, approved a nuisance abatement for 388 Melrose Ave., the house and detached garage owned by Laura Entrikin. The resolution gives the owner 30 days from the time she's served to clean it up and make repairs.
"It is our full intention to raze the structure if she doesn't clean it up," Crivelli said.
If that happens, the costs will be attached as a lien to the property.
The township's action follows a Feb. 28 condemnation of the property by the Mahoning County Board of Health because of "sanitary conditions."
Entrikin, 46, whose current address is on South Avenue, couldn't be reached to comment.
The owner also faces misdemeanor animal cruelty charges, and her pretrial hearing is set for April.
Police and officials from township zoning and county health board entered the house last month after receiving calls from neighbors. They found two dead dogs amid the trash and debris inside.
Two cats also were found. Crivelli said that one was adopted and the second had to be euthanized because of health problems.
Empty cans, food wrappers and plastic bottles littered the floor inside the house, but items including a wet-dry vacuum and a grandfather clock remained.