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Lowellville police warn residents to lock cars

LOWELLVILLE — Police are warning residents to lock their cars and report anything suspicious after four recent car break-ins.

Police Chief William Vance reported the cars were burglarized over Monday and Tuesday in the area of West Wood Street and Youngstown-Lowellville Road.

He said that nothing of value was taken. The cars were unlocked.

Vanful of bank checks stolen from parking lot

WARREN — A South Euclid man left a van full of bank checks unlocked and running while he went into the Chase Bank office at the corner of Market Street and Park Avenue.

Gatonye G. Humphrey, 53, who works for Priority Mail of Cleveland, told Warren police that he left the 2002 Dodge Caravan running on South Park Avenue alongside the bank while he went inside to pick up the checks from the bank at about 7:40 p.m. Wednesday.

When he returned with the bank’s checks, the van, containing checks he had previously picked up, was gone.

Police later recovered the van on Olive Street Northeast. Inside were about seven cloth bags containing a large number of checks valued at several thousand dollars, police said.

Police don’t know whether any checks were missing, said Sgt. Jeff Cole of the Warren Police Department.

Police cited Humphrey for leaving keys inside of the vehicle, a misdemeanor.

MCBDD yard sale to benefit Kaluza family

BOARDMAN — Mahoning County Board of Developmental Disabilities is having an indoor community yard sale from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Bev Road Sheltered Workshop, Bev Road at South Avenue.

The sale will assist Joe Kaluza and his family to care for their two special-needs children. Along with the yard sale, the workshop will host a craft sale and a gift-basket auction. Vendor tables are available for $15.

Kaluza, a former manager at the South Avenue KFC in Youngstown, was left a quadriplegic when he was shot in March 2008 during a robbery. Kaluza was on his way to make the restaurant’s deposit when he was shot.