Police arrest man called deserter by Army

Police arrest man called deserter by Army

YOUNGS-TOWN — A man the Army said is a deserter was arrested after a routine traffic stop on the South Side turned up a warrant. Andrew D. Thomas, 25, of Datson Avenue, will be kept in Mahoning County Jail until the military sends instructions for his transport, the jail said.

Thomas was driving east on West Warren Avenue around 9 p.m. Thursday and was pulled over when he failed to signal a turn onto Market Street, police said. When his name was run through the Law Enforcement Automated Data System, the Army desertion warrant showed up. No information about when he was reported as a deserter or where he had been stationed was immediately available.

Digital marquee sign

YOUNGSTOWN — Work has begun to install a digital marquee sign outside the Chevrolet Centre.

It will take about two weeks to install the sign, said Eric Ryan, the center’s executive director. The work began Friday.

The free-standing sign will tout upcoming events at the center. The sign was to be installed when the facility opened in October 2005. But because of financial concerns, it was postponed. The cost of the sign is about $70,000. The city provided $11.9 million of the $45 million needed to build the center.

Woman says boyfriend’s teen son stabbed her

BOARDMAN — A 17-year-old Woodrow Avenue boy was lodged in the Mahoning County Juvenile Justice Center, accused of stabbing his father’s girlfriend in the leg.

The woman, 32, told police that she, her boyfriend and the boy went to dinner and returned to the Woodrow home. The boyfriend went to bed, and the woman and the teen watched a movie.

The two goofed around and wrestled on the couch and when she stood up, the boy stabbed the back of her thigh with a steak knife, she told police.

She told the boy that he hurt her and he stabbed her other leg and cut her hand, the woman told police. The boy told the woman that she deserved it because she was talking during the movie, a police report said.

The woman was treated at St. Elizabeth Boardman Health Center, and the boy was charged with felonious assault.

Tax statements mailed

LISBON — Columbiana County Treasurer Nick Barborak said Friday that 59,012 real estate tax statements for the first half 2008 have been mailed to property owners.

The first round of bills went in the mail Friday, and the rest should be in the mail by Monday.

Taxpayers who do not receive a statement by Jan. 30 should call the treasurer’s office. Payments must be postmarked or received by the treasurer’s office no later than March 13.

MetroParks job fair set

YOUNGSTOWN — Mill Creek MetroParks will have a job fair from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Davis Center in Fellows Riverside Gardens. No advance reservations or appointments are necessary.

Potential applicants can learn about seasonal and part-time employment opportunities that are available at the MetroParks. Representatives from several park departments will be available to provide information about jobs for the 2009 season.

Manslaughter trial set

LISBON — A Salem woman is set to go on trial at 9 a.m. June 9 in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court on a charge of involuntary manslaughter.

Robin S. Jackson, 48, of East Third Street, was indicted after her mother, Shirley Nutter, 70, was found dead in a bedroom in Jackson’s house March 6, 2007.

Nutter was bedridden for several years. Jackson is free on bond.

Raid turns up crack

YOUNGSTOWN — A search warrant used to enter 39 McGuffey Road turned up an AK-47 rifle, 36 bags of crack cocaine and a digital scale with cocaine residue, police said. No one was home when police raided the house Thursday afternoon and no arrests were made. The dog warden was called to take two malnourished pit bulls found inside the house.