Charged in marijuana sales

Charged in marijuana sales

GIRARD — A city man is charged with trafficking in marijuana for the second time in four months.

Police used a search warrant at 509 Washington Ave. on Thursday and arrested Craig Siciliano Jr., 22. Reports say Siciliano was in the attic of the home trying to hide suspected marijuana when arrested.

Siciliano’s home was raided previously Jan. 28 after police made several undercover marijuana buys there. Police found more than a pound of marijuana during the first raid. That case has been bound over to the Trumbull County Common Pleas Court.

Police began the second investigation a month ago after receiving word that Siciliano may have been back in business.

Charge of inducing panic

GIRARD — A 14-year-old junior high school student will be charged with inducing panic and conveyance of a weapon onto school grounds.

According to police reports, the boy, who lists the Rescue Mission as an address, told school officials that someone had written the words “Bomb in Da Bilding” on a second-floor restroom wall just before 9 a.m. Thursday.

Police watched surveillance tapes of the restroom and interviewed anyone who entered the facilities before the writing was found. The boy later confessed writing on the wall. He told police he was bored and thought it would be funny.

A teacher at the school searched the boy’s locker and found an all-purpose knife/pliers set with various knife blades.

3 years for selling cocaine

YOUNGSTOWN — An Austintown man who pleaded guilty to four counts of cocaine trafficking was sentenced to three years in prison.

Stanford B. Lovett, 53, of Wilcox Road, was sentenced Thursday by Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court. Lovett has agreed to forfeit $17,125 in ill-gotten gains from the drug sales.

The offenses occurred last October, and Lovett was indicted in December. Robert Duffrin, assistant county prosecutor, said Lovett frequently sold cocaine from his garage.

In the plea agreement, the prosecution dropped six other cocaine trafficking counts, a cocaine possession count and one count each of marijuana possession and trafficking.

House to be auctioned

CORTLAND — Someplace Safe, Trumbull County’s domestic violence agency, will auction a house at 162 Park Ave. at 6 p.m. May 15.

The house that was donated to the agency in 2007 is a 3,263-square-foot, two-story structure with five bedrooms, two baths and two new furnaces. It is now being used as two rental apartments. Open houses will be from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday and 5 to 6 p.m. May 12.