W. Side man stabbed

W. Side man stabbed

YOUNGSTOWN

Police are investigating the stabbing of a 33-year-old man on the West Side. The Bessemer Street man was home early Saturday when a 36-year-old Campbell man asked to borrow a cell phone to make a call. Witnesses told police the Campbell man left the home as if he were going to keep the cell phone but was confronted by the victim.

Reports say the two men got into a fight that ended with the Campbell man placing the victim in a choke hold and stabbing him once in the side. The victim was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center and listed in stable condition.

Settlement reached

WARREN

The city and the Ohio Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association have reached a tentative settlement in the legal action filed on behalf of Warren police officer Joseph Kistler.

Kistler was next in line on the most recent civil-service list to be promoted to sergeant when a position came open early this year. But the city and the union representing ranking officers agreed in 2009 to reduce the number of sergeants from 15 to 10 to better reflect the size of the department after layoffs in early 2009. The settlement calls for Kistler to be promoted to sergeant the next time the number of sergeants in the department drops below 10.

Fugitive arrested

YOUNGSTOWN

Members of the Mahoning Valley Violent Crimes Task Force have arrested one of the top-15 most-violent fugitives on their list. Joseph L. Moreland, 28, of Youngstown, was arrested Saturday at a home in the 2200 block of Kensington Avenue and is being held on multiple violent felony and narcotics-trafficking warrants in Mahoning County.

Delay sought

AKRON

Danny Lee Hill of Warren, on Ohio’s death row for killing 12-year-old Raymond Fife in 1985, has asked the federal courts here to delay the execution of a fellow inmate. Attorneys for Hill asked that the death sentence not be carried out Sept. 15 on Kevin Keith, convicted in the 1994 murder of two adults and a child and the attempted murder of three others in Crawford County. The filing says that because Keith has been around Hill for several years, he is in a position to testify as to Hill’s mental abilities, information “critical” to Hill’s assertion that he is mentally retarded and not eligible for the death penalty. The filing asks that Keith’s execution be delayed until a video deposition can be taken from Keith.