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Struthers chief to retire
STRUTHERS — Police Chief Robert Norris has notified the city he will retire July 1. Norris has been with the city for 34 years, said Mayor Terry Stocker. Stocker said the city’s civil service commission will convene to select a replacement for Norris.
The city’s four captains are eligible to take a test for the position, he said. They are Tom Skovira, Timothy Roddy, Patrick Bundy and Michael Leonard.
Norris was not available Tuesday to comment.
4 arrested in drug raid
WEATHERSFIELD — Township police and the U.S. Marshal’s Fugitive Task Force have arrested four people and charged them with drug trafficking.
Township police chief Joe Consiglio said Tuesday after the arrests around 2:30 p.m. that the suspects’ names would not be released until today. The two women and two men all live at the Trumbull Metropolitan Housing Authority property on Orchard Court, where the raid took place, he said.
Consiglio said the four are charged with trafficking in heroin and OxyContin.
Consiglio said the raid was the result of an eight-month-long investigation by his department and the Niles Police Department.
He said there will be more arrests.
No-parking zone planned
CANFIELD – A year-round “No Parking Zone” is being established on a few township streets where some people have ignored parking bans during heavy snow. Township trustees met Tuesday and said signs will be ordered and erected on St. Andrews Drive from Tyler Drive to St. Andrews Court, along St. Andrews Court and Fox Haven Drive. Signs will be ordered soon, and the township will give residents six months before the county sheriff’s department will begin towing vehicles. The ban will apply to both sides of the streets. Trustee Chairwoman Marie Cartwright said road crews have had repeated trouble plowing after emergency parking bans have been issued because of snow.
Man reports being shot
YOUNGSTOWN — Police said a 34-year-old Sunnybrook Avenue man told them he was shot in the foot when he refused to give the gold chain he was wearing to a gunman.
The victim told police he was walking on Canfield Road near Sunnybrook just after 12 a.m. Tuesday when the gunman confronted him, demanding his gold chain. He said that, when he refused to comply, the gunman shot him in the right big toe.
The victim told police he ran away and was able to get a ride to St. Elizabeth Health Center, where he was treated. He kept his gold chain.
Arrested in child-sex case
NEW CASTLE, Pa. — State police said a Shenango Township man was arrested on charges of illegal sexual contact with a 4-year-old girl.
Charles J. Catalano, 68, of Toney Street, was charged with two counts each of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child, aggravated indecent assault, indecent assault, unlawful contact with a minor and sexual assault. He was also charged with single counts of corruption of minors and endangering the welfare of children. Police said the assaults occurred from June 2007 to November 2009. Catalano is in Lawrence County Jail on $10,000 bond.
Police: Texting led to crash
MERCER, Pa. — Pennsylvania State Police said texting while driving appeared to be the cause of a crash that sent Clarice Edinger, 19, of Mercer, to the hospital. Police said Edinger was driving a car north on state Route 158 in southern Mercer County around 2:40 p.m. Tuesday when she was apparently distracted while text-ing on her cell phone. Her car drifted left of center and was struck by a southbound tractor trailer driven by Eugene Bennink, 68, of Clymer, N.Y., police said.
Police said Edinger suffered major injuries and was flown to St. Elizabeth Health Center in Youngstown, where a report on her condition wasn’t available. Bennink wasn’t injured.