POLICE BLOTTER: Girard, Liberty, Hubbard:

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

GIRARD

May 3

Theft: Someone took two gift cards, a pair of sunglasses and a photo album from a car in the 200 block of East Broadway Avenue.

Theft: A vehicle was entered in the 200 block of Church Hill Road. Stolen were two speakers, two pairs of sunglasses and a cell-phone charger.

Attempted breaking and entering: A garage was damaged in the 400 block of Plymouth Avenue after someone had tried to enter.

Criminal mischief: A vehicle’s driver’s-side front window was broken in the 200 block of East Second Street.

Arrest: A Girard man, 37, was taken into custody at his residence and charged with violating a protection order.

Assault: Authorities responded to a disturbance in the 300 block of Iowa Avenue, where a woman reported an intoxicated man had tried to strike another man but missed, hitting her.

Theft: A $200 bicycle was missing in the 100 block of East Liberty Street.

May 4

Theft: A rear license plate was stolen off a company-owned truck in the 1500 block of South State Street.

Theft: An Xbox 360 game console and a game cartridge were taken from a Hancock Street residence. The theft came to $300.

May 5

Aggravated menacing: A Trumbull Avenue woman told officers a man fired several shots into the air after demanding she return his food-stamp card. Two .32-caliber casings were found nearby, a report said.

May 6

Theft: A $1,000, 40-channel citizens band radio was stolen from a truck in the 100 block of North State Street.

LIBERTY

May 1

Theft: A Youngstown woman, 49, was accused in the theft of $166 worth of clothing from Goodwill Industries, 2747 Belmont Ave., and charged.

Breaking and entering: Someone broke into a vacant residence in the 1600 block of Keefer Road through a window before removing copper piping.

Theft: A 15-inch wheel was removed from a car on Fairlawn Drive.

Aggravated menacing: A township man alleged a neighbor had threatened to shoot him and get other people to kill his family.

Theft: A Youngstown man, 44, at the Mahoning County Jail was arrested on a warrant from the township charging him.

Criminal damaging: A rear glass patio door was destroyed at a home in the 1400 block of Timbercrest Street.

Identity theft: A Logan Gate Road woman learned someone had used her credit/automated-teller-machine card to make more than $200 worth of unauthorized purchases.

May 2

Assault: A Hubbard man told police another male shoved him to the ground at a Country Club Drive business.

Domestic violence: A 48-year-old township man was charged after officers found cuts and bruises on the left side of a woman’s face. The woman alleged her husband had slapped and punched her.

Arrest: A 38-year-old Youngstown woman was arrested at a Belmont Avenue motel on charges of aggravated menacing and inducing panic after authorities received a report from Ligonier, Pa., police of a possible child abduction and got word that the mother, who doesn’t have custody of the children, was in the motel with them. The father was to pick up the youngsters, both of whom were found safe, and an investigation is pending, a report said.

Theft: Austintown police handed a 26-year-old Struthers man to Liberty authorities. He was wanted on an outstanding warrant charging him.

May 3

Criminal damaging: A front sliding-glass door was shattered at a home in the 1400 block of Tibbetts-Wick Road. Damage came to $350.

Burglary: Someone entered a Kris Drive residence via a window, though nothing seemed to be missing.

Theft: A trailer and several Jet Skis were stolen from a driveway in the 900 block of Ravine Drive. The loss was estimated at $16,020.

May 4

Menacing: A township woman reported her former boyfriend, of Huntersville, N.C., tried to coerce the accuser by asking her to pay him $900 a month in exchange for his not sending private photographs of the woman to her employer.

Bad check: A worker for One Stop Shop, 4495 Logan Way, reported that a Youngstown man, 50, wrote a $166 check on a closed account.

Theft: An employee with Handel’s Ice Cream, 4251 Belmont Ave., told police a deposit had never made it to the bank.

Theft: A 51-year-old Youngstown woman was charged with receiving stolen property after a washing machine and dryer were missing from her former apartment complex in the 3000 block of North Gate Road. She also was wanted on a larceny count.

Theft: A $300 bicycle was stolen from a park in the 1300 block of Church Hill Road.

Theft: A charge was pending against a Campbell man who an employee of Church Hill Motors Inc., 1480 Church Hill-Hubbard Road, accused of having stolen tires, chrome rims and other property, for a loss of $2,095.

HUBBARD

May 1

Fraud: A Hager Street man told police his wife had received a counterfeit $3,530 check in the mail, with instructions to cash the check, then send the company from which it originated $2,980 via Western Union.

Theft: A generator and other equipment were removed from a truck in the 1100 block of Fairchild Drive.

Criminal damaging: Several juveniles tossed rocks through the rear of a home in the 100 block of North Main Street.

May 2

Domestic violence: A Hubbard man was charged after a woman alleged her intoxicated boyfriend threatened to kill her.

Menacing: An East Liberty Street woman alleged her former husband displayed a knife in front of her daughter.

Possible theft: An Elmwood Drive woman reported the possible theft of a gun.

Arrest: A warrant was issued against a township woman accused of failing to appear for arraignment on a charge of endangering a child.

May 3

Arrest: Youngstown police held a Hubbard man wanted on a warrant from the township. He was accused of failure to appear for a violation-of-probation hearing.

May 4

Theft: A wedding band was taken from a home in the 200 block of Westview Avenue.