Teens face drug charges

Teens face drug charges

BOARDMAN — Two high school students are charged with drug offenses, one accused of selling a prescription painkiller to the other.

Police were called to the school Monday afternoon by administrators. A student had reported that a 17-year-old girl had sold the drugs to a 16-year-old boy. A police report said the girl admitted to school personnel that she had sold the boy four Vicodin tablets for $5. She had a prescription for the medicine. The boy also reportedly admitted buying the tablets from the girl.

The girl was charged with trafficking in drugs while the boy was charged with drug possession. Both students were released to their parents.

Trailer break-ins

BOARDMAN — Three construction office trailers were broken into at the site of the new Paul C. Bunn School. The school is part of the Youngstown City Schools but located in the township. A worker at the Sequoya Drive site told police that the break-ins occurred between Friday evening and Sunday morning. The companies affected are Kreidler Construction, South Avenue; DeSalvo Construction of Hubbard; and Heery Construction of Youngstown. Nothing appeared to be missing from the trailers but windows and doors were damaged and paperwork was strewn about, a police report said.

Pot growing in field

SPRINGFIELD — An Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper, in a plane on his way to a court appearance, spotted suspected marijuana plants in a field below. The trooper alerted other authorities to the spot and they seized about 60 marijuana plants from the field Tuesday. The field is on Garfield Road, between Beaver-Springfield Road and Columbiana Road, according to OSP’s Canfield Post. No charges have been filed.

County to buy building

MERCER, Pa. — Mercer County commissioners are buying the building at Pa. Route 19 and North Diamond Street for approximately $340,000. The building, which is across the street from the county courthouse, has Citizens Bank on the ground floor and a few tenants on the second floor. Commissioner Brian Beader said these tenants will remain in the building and the county will use lease revenue to help offset the purchase cost. There is 4,500 square feet vacant on the building’s 5,300-square-foot second floor. Commissioners are considering moving the juvenile probation offices, domestic relations or the bridge department into the building. Commissioners said they are dealing with real estate broker Caldwell Banker.

Sex-offender complaints

WARREN — The city has filed complaints in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court asking that two sexual offenders be required to move away from school buildings. Gregory V. Hicks, Warren’s law director, filed complaints asking that Markus D. Stubbs of Martin Luther King Boulevard and Daniel J. West Jr. of Fairmount Avenue Northeast be required to move out of their homes because they are within 1,000 feet of school buildings. Stubbs, convicted of rape Aug. 4, 2000, lives 241 feet away from Western Reserve Middle School, according to the filing. West, convicted of sodomy Aug. 7, 1984, lives 960 feet from Holy Trinity Orthodox Elementary, the filing says.

Sentence in traffic death

MERCER, Pa. — Christopher Matarrese, 28, of Pittsburgh, was sentenced Friday to six to 23 months in jail for causing the October 2005 traffic death of Kyle McFeely of Grove City. Judge John Reed imposed the sentence on Matarrese, who could have gotten five years for involuntary manslaughter, a misdemeanor. A charge of drunken driving was dropped as part of the plea agreement. According to court documents, McFeely, 23, was on an errand for his employer Oct. 14, 2005, when Matarrese’s auto ran a stop sign at Airport Road and Pa. Route 173, Pine Township, and struck McFeely’s Dodge Neon in the driver’s-side door. McFeely died later.