POLICE CALLS

POLICE CALLS

A summary of recent criminal activity in Girard, Hubbard and Liberty:

GIRARD

Oct. 20

Theft: An East Broadway Avenue man reported a credit card and cell phone charger stolen from his car, and that the card was used to make two purchases totaling $258.

Drugs: Charges were pending against a girl, 16, after police received a tip that a student at Girard High School, 31 N. Ward Ave., may have drugs. Found were an unmarked bottle with 15 large and small pills and a prescription bottle with a white Klonopin pill, the report showed.

Identity fraud: A North Highland Avenue woman discovered her missing debit/credit card was used on at least five occasions, four online, to make more than $2,800 worth of purchases.

Oct. 21

Criminal mischief: An East Main Street woman reported being told her electric service had been tampered with.

Burglary: A woman returned to her Skoplee Street home and found that a bedroom door had been kicked in. Missing was a book of checks.

Attempted burglary: A girl called 911 to report that a male in a dark hoodie and baggy blue jeans was trying to break into her residence in the 400 block of North State Street.

Menacing: A Dearborn Street woman said a 13-year-old boy tried to coax her son into a fight with him.

Oct. 22

Burglary: A Stambaugh Street man told police of hearing a noise in his residence and seeing a man in a gray shirt fleeing before discovering someone had tried to enter via a rear window.

HUBBARD

Oct. 17

Theft: A Meadowland Drive man reported a political sign was removed from his yard.

Theft: A worker with Family Dollar, 437 E. Liberty St., called police after three women left the store with a laundry basket containing stolen merchandise.

Oct. 18

Arrest: Authorities charged a man, no information given, with disorderly conduct while intoxicated after a woman said her intoxicated brother had been ransacking another family member’s Fifth Avenue home.

Arrest: A man was charged with disorderly conduct after a Youngstown Hubbard Road man told police of someone pounding on the accuser’s door and trying to break in.

Oct. 20

Drugs: Officers responded to a report of two juveniles in possession of marijuana in the 100 block of Myron Street.

Vehicle theft: A West Park Avenue man discovered two motorcycles missing from his shed.

Oct. 21

Theft: A Doris Drive woman reported her wallet missing while at church.

LIBERTY

Oct. 16

Criminal damaging: Someone used a pumpkin to strike a Venture Drive woman’s vehicle, causing a large dent and a $2,000 damage estimate.

Assault: Police responded to a Roosevelt Drive home regarding a person being threatened with a gun, and the victim reported having been slapped in the face.

Oct. 17

Theft: Numerous DVDs were removed from their cases at the Warren Trumbull Public Library, 415 Church Hill-Hubbard Road.

Breaking and entering: A Keefer Road man reported that someone entered and took from his shed a bicycle, a generator, a welder and an auger, for a $1,179 loss.

Theft by deception: A Youngstown man told police someone contacted him claiming he had been awarded 3.4 million euros in a lottery, but needed to send money up front. The man said he sent a $3,700 money gram to someone in Laurel, Md., from a Belmont Avenue business.

Theft: A 19-year-old Youngstown man was charged, accused in theft of $35 worth of food from Golden Hunan Restaurant & Lounge, 3111 Belmont Ave.

Oct. 18

Aggravated menacing: A Youngstown man reported that while in the 3100 block of Hadley Avenue, someone threatened to harm or kill him.

Bad check: A 67-year-old Hermitage, Pa., man tried to cash a bad $3,955 check he claimed was from lottery winnings, but the employee with Penguin Check Cashing, 3233 Belmont Ave., said a letter the man presented to back up the check was fraudulent, and called police.

Domestic violence: A Hubbard man, 37, was charged after his girlfriend, of Liberty, alleged he struck her in the face with a pack of cigarettes he tossed during an argument.

Drugs: A 26-year-old Youngstown man faced charges of drug abuse and possession of drug paraphernalia after officers investigated a suspicious person near Logan Way. Four rocks of suspected crack cocaine in a bag and a wrench socket converted to a smoking pipe were found, the report said.

Oct. 19

Theft: A Louise Lane woman reported a $150 car stereo stolen from her vehicle.

Theft: A Lynn Drive man discovered a $150 CD stereo had been taken from his car.

Theft: A North Jackson man in the 20 block of Louise Lane reported the theft of a CD player, an amplifier and 1,200 CDs from his van. The theft came to $3,452.

Theft: A woman in her 40s in a dark green Chevrolet Blazer pumped and failed to pay for $35 worth of gasoline before leaving a Uni-Mart station, 2703 Belmont Ave.

Theft: A 36-year-old woman and a 51-year-old man, both of Youngstown, were charged with theft and resisting arrest after $169 worth of health and beauty aids and clothing was stolen from Dollar General, 3551 Belmont Ave. The woman fled in a vehicle and was caught a short time later, but initially refused to cooperate, police said.

Oct. 20

Assault: A McDonald woman alleged that her boyfriend, of Chrysann Drive, forced her to the ground and assaulted her after she came to retrieve property. She suffered several bruises.

Oct. 21

Burglary: A $700 laptop computer and several firearms were among the items stolen after someone broke a window and entered a Sampson Drive home.