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Struthers women charged
BOARDMAN — A Struthers woman faces a robbery charge and is accused of fighting with store security at a Doral Drive discount store.
Cindy Parish, 51, of Elm Street, was arrested Monday. She also had been wanted on a warrant from Trumbull County charging her with failure to appear in court.
About 1 p.m. Monday, police were called to Wal-Mart. It was determined that Parish and Susan Parish, 29, of the same address, had been seen by store security concealing merchandise in empty purses. When confronted, Susan Parish cooperated and returned inside the store, but Cindy Parish resisted being taken into custody, a police report said. The store’s loss-prevention officer placed Cindy Parish on the ground and handcuffed her. Her fingers were injured when she grabbed the wall, trying to remain standing, authorities said. Cindy Parish was treated at St. Elizabeth Boardman Health Center and then taken to the Mahoning County jail.
Susan Parish was charged with theft. The relationship of the two women wasn’t listed in the police report.
Held on drug, gun charges
CAMPBELL — City police on housing-authority duty charged a man with drug possession and carrying a concealed weapon.
Police stopped Curtis W. Daniels, 19, of Youngstown while he was walking with another man at 5:42 p.m. Monday on Monroe Street, police report. Daniels told them he had “two bags of weed” in his pocket, the report said. Police said they also found a loaded handgun under Daniels’ armpit.
Daniels appeared in municipal court Tuesday morning. He was given bonds of $1,000, or 10 percent of $10,000, on the weapons charge and $250, or 10 percent of $2,500, on the drug charge.
He remained in Campbell’s jail Tuesday afternoon. He is set to appear in court for a preliminary hearing at 9 a.m. Tuesday.
Gas station robbed
BOARDMAN — An employee of a Glenwood Avenue gas station reported the business was robbed at gunpoint by two men.
The employee, a 24-year-old woman, told police she was mopping the floor in the back of the Shell station about 9 p.m. Sunday when two masked men came in.
One of the men pointed a gun at her, demanded she open the cash register and threatened to shoot her. The woman opened the register, and the other man removed cash from the drawer. Both men then fled the store.
Candidate to speak
LISBON — Sam Hepfner, a Salem Republican and candidate for the 6th Congressional District, will speak at a town-hall meeting hosted by the Ohio Valley Tea Party at 6:30 p.m. Friday at Columbiana County Career and Technical Center, 9364 state Route 45. The meeting is the third of several town-hall meetings with local candidates.