A summary of recent criminal activity in Boardman:


A summary of recent criminal activity in Boardman:

May 15

Theft: Someone stole five food items valued at a total of $25 from Giant Eagle, 1201 Doral Drive.

Arrest: A Boardman man, 54, was charged with public indecency after officers got a report about an intoxicated person in the 70 block of Meadowbrook Avenue.

Theft: A 46-year-old Farrell, Pa., man was charged after seven DVDs were stolen from Wal-Mart, 1300 Doral Drive.

Theft: Two 17-year-old Youngstown girls were charged, accused in the theft of $144 worth of women’s clothing and hygiene products from Wal-Mart.

Criminal damaging: A Pickerington, Ontario, Canada, man found out someone had used a key to cause $1,000 worth of damage to his rental car while he stayed at a South Avenue motel.

Forgery: A worker with General Extrusions Inc., 4040 Lake Park Road, discovered someone produced fraudulent checks and cashed them in Florida after having withdrawn more than $4,000 from a business account.

Arrest: Police responded to a suspicious person near Tudor Lane, where they took into custody a 35-year-old Boardman man wanted on a charge of failure to appear in court on one count of passing bad checks.

Breaking and entering: Someone broke into Saunders Music, 4400 Market St., through a rear window and took six guitars and a pedal.

Theft: A Struthers man’s debit card was stolen as he shopped at a Doral Drive store.

May 16

Domestic violence: Two 18-year-old Boardman women were charged with domestic violence and disorderly conduct after police responded to a situation in the 500 block of Boardman-Canfield Road. One woman alleged the other slapped, knocked down and jumped on her; the other woman reported having been assaulted, too. One of the teens also was charged with resisting arrest and menacing.

Attempted theft: A man tried to steal three Sony PlayStation games from Best Buy, 561 Boardman-Poland Road, before fleeing on foot.

Criminal damaging: A vehicle in the 800 block of Moyer Avenue had its right front tire slashed.

Theft: A Poland girl, 15, and an 18-year-old Struthers woman were accused of stealing clothing, jewelry and cosmetics from Wal-Mart and faced theft charges.

Theft: A man at a Market Street store told police another man asked the accuser for change for a $50 bill before grabbing the money and fleeing.

Theft: A Youngstown girl, 17, was charged with theft and receiving stolen property after clothing was stolen from Macy’s in the Southern Park Mall. She also had a bag with $751 worth of stolen merchandise from another store in the mall, police said.

Burglary: A Carter Circle woman came home to discover a break-in, as well as $200 and a gold wristwatch missing. The woman said she saw a man running from her apartment complex.

Theft: An employee with Kaleel Bros. Inc., 761 Bev Road, told authorities a co-worker who suddenly quit removed a payroll check from a locker.

Breaking and entering: Someone entered Pettiti Garden Center, 5509 South Ave., through unknown means and fled after having activated an alarm.

May 17

Breaking and entering: Someone cut a lock to a fence at Magnetech Industrial Services, 821 Bev Road, before removing 600 pounds of copper with an estimated value of $1,800.

Theft/forgery: A Kiowa Drive man discovered four personal checks were forged and written for a total of $469.

Theft: A motorist pumped and failed to pay for $30 worth of gasoline before leaving a BP station, 310 Boardman-Canfield Road.

Auto theft: A Southwoods Drive man reported the theft of his 1996 Dodge Stratus.

Theft/misuse of a credit card: A Gertrude Avenue woman reported her purse stolen from her car, and that a credit card was used on three occasions to make $161.71 worth of fraudulent charges.

Assault: A Boardman girl sustained an injury to the left side of her jaw after having been assaulted at the Southern Park Mall.

Assault: An 11-year-old Canfield girl suffered puncture wounds to her right leg and side after she had been assaulted at a residence in the 100 block of Maple Drive.

Criminal mischief: A Hunters Cove Drive woman found toilet paper in her backyard trees, and that someone dumped cereal in a pond on her property.

Trespassing: A Boardman man, 25, a Youngstown man, 30, and a 42-year-old Girard man faced criminal-trespassing charges after the owner of a Bev Road supply business drove by and reported a suspicious van and three people who had no reason to be in the parking lot.

May 18

Arrest: A Boardman man, 39, was arrested at his South Avenue home and charged with child endangering after someone reported seeing a young boy wandering unattended in traffic in the 6000 block of South Avenue.

Criminal damaging: A key was used to make two large scratches on a vehicle on Boardman-Canfield Road. Damage was estimated at $3,000.

Theft: A woman’s tote bag was taken from her car in the 200 block of Brookfield Avenue.

Theft: A driver pumped $36 worth of gasoline and left a Shell True North station, 950 Boardman-Poland Road, without paying.

Theft: A Campbell woman, 41, was charged, accused of stealing 12 articles of clothing from the JCPenney store in the Southern Park Mall and costing the business $359.

Theft: Officers charged a 22-year-old Struthers woman after eight cosmetics were taken from Wal-Mart.

Assaults: Authorities responded to Boardman Township Park, 375 Boardman-Poland Road, where seven people said they had been assaulted. Some had injuries to their head, right eye or ear.

Burglary: Two Boardman boys, 11 and 12, faced burglary and criminal-damaging charges after police said they caught the two in a vacant Melbourne Avenue home that had been entered via a rear door.