POLICE CALLS


POLICE CALLS

A summary of recent criminal activity in Boardman:

Sept. 27

Criminal damaging: An East Liverpool man at Southern Park Mall discovered a driver’s-side tire slashed on his car.

Burglary: Someone smashed a rear basement window to a residence in the 1400 block of Tamarisk Trail before taking $3,000 worth of jewelry, three rifles, a .32-caliber revolver and four toolboxes.

Burglary: An Afton Avenue man found out someone had entered his home via a bedroom window. Stolen were two diamond rings and a jar of money.

Criminal damaging: A Hitchcock Road woman’s vehicle’s front windshield was smashed, resulting in a $300 damage estimate.

Domestic violence: A 41-year-old Lemoyne Avenue man was arrested at his residence and charged. A family member alleged he threatened her and kicked a door, causing it to strike her in the face.

Theft/damage: A Homestead Drive man reported a driver’s-side window broken and a $100 radio stolen from his car.

Theft: A Boardman man, 22, was charged, accused in the theft of a $10 item from Spencer Gifts in Southern Park Mall.

Theft: Three Youngstown females, 16, 18 and 20, were charged after roughly $70 worth of makeup was stolen from Wal-Mart, 1300 Doral Drive.

Drugs: Officers arrested a 14-year-old Boardman boy on Shady Run Road, Youngstown, on a charge of theft of drugs, a fourth-degree felony, after his parents filed a report alleging the teen stole five of his brother’s pills and tried to sell them.

Burglary: A Cook Avenue man reported awaking to find a former acquaintance in his apartment. A bank card and $100 were taken.

Theft/damage: Two Homestead Drive men reported their vehicles had been broken into, and that compact-disc players were removed.

Theft: A woman’s cell phone was stolen at a Boardman-Canfield Road store.

Sept. 28

Argument: Two women in the 400 block of Boardman-Poland Road told police the driver of a Ford Taurus intentionally struck one of them during an argument about a parking space, and the other woman said the female motorist shoved her. Neither was seriously hurt and both declined to press charges.

Menacing: A Youngstown man told authorities a worker for a Boardman-Poland Road restaurant threatened to harm him as part of ongoing problems between the two.

Burglary: A laptop computer, a 32-inch TV, a knife set and several other items were stolen after someone entered a Forest Park Drive residence.

Theft: A New Castle, Pa., woman’s cell phone was stolen while she patronized a Boardman-Poland Road eatery.

Drugs: A 21-year-old Austintown man was arrested at a Forest Park Drive residence as police investigated a suspicious vehicle, and charged with drug possession and obstructing official business. He gave a false name and had Vicodin, the report said.

Drugs: A traffic stop on Market Street led to a 44-year-old Youngstown man’s arrest on charges of operating a vehicle impaired as well as possession of crack cocaine and drug paraphernalia. A suspected crack pipe, a rock of suspected crack cocaine and a container with suspected drug residue were found, police said.

Sept. 29

Domestic violence: A 14-year-old Wendy Lane boy was taken into custody at his residence and charged after his mother alleged the teen slapped and shoved her into a wall during an argument about a pair of shoes.

Arrest: Officers booked a 29-year-old Youngstown woman at the Mahoning County Jail on a criminal-trespassing charge. She was one of two women accused of entering Burlington Coat Factory, 529 Boardman-Canfield Road, for criminal purposes.

Burglary: Someone accessed a ladder to enter a second-floor window of a Prestwick Drive residence before taking jewelry, dinnerware and $1,000.

Identity theft: An Orlo Lane man found out his date of birth and Social Security number were used to open a credit-card account without consent.

Theft/damage: A Warren man’s vehicle had a broken window in the 7800 block of South Avenue. A $500 CD player was removed.

Theft by deception: A Fox Run Drive woman accused her former husband of stealing $2,415 worth of credit from her by opening and charging an account without her knowledge.

Theft: An employee with a Hubbard company reported the theft of a work cart while delivering food to a Boardman-Poland Road business.

Breaking and entering: Someone broke into Rental Corral, 4627 Market St., via a rear door and took an $871 cut-off saw.

Theft: A Meadowbrook Avenue man discovered money and roughly 14 handguns missing from his home.

Theft: A rear license plate was stolen off a vehicle on Applecrest Court.

Breaking and entering: Someone knocked out a side window to a shed at Rossi Bros. Funeral Home, 4442 South Ave., and stole a self-propelled lawn mower, a leaf machine, a snow blower and two gas cans.

Sept. 30

Theft: Two women stole numerous articles of clothing from Gabriel Bros., 7110 South Ave.

Theft: A 48-year-old Youngstown man was charged in the theft of four bottles of cologne from the J.C. Penney store.

Theft: Two Campbell women, 18 and 19, and an 18-year-old Boardman woman were charged with two counts of theft after being accused of stealing more than 20 clothing items from the JCPenney store and Sears, both in Southern Park Mall.