Sketches released of suspect in assault

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The Trumbull County Sheriff’s office is hoping that a $1,000 reward being offered by the family and friends of an assault victim will help identify a suspect, shown above in two police sketches. A woman in her 60s was riding her bicycle on Custer-Orangeville Road near the entrance to Sharon Speedway in Hartford Township at 1:30 p.m. Oct. 9 when a man around 30 years old in a gray Chevrolet Impala grabbed her, pulled her off of the road, choked her, and attempted to rape her. Anyone with information is asked to call the sheriff’s office at 330-675-2508.

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The Trumbull County Sheriff’s office is hoping that a $1,000 reward being offered by the family and friends of an assault victim will help identify a suspect, shown above in two police sketches. A woman in her 60s was riding her bicycle on Custer-Orangeville Road near the entrance to Sharon Speedway in Hartford Township at 1:30 p.m. Oct. 9 when a man around 30 years old in a gray Chevrolet Impala grabbed her, pulled her off of the road, choked her, and attempted to rape her. Anyone with information is asked to call the sheriff’s office at 330-675-2508.

Staff report

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Trumbull County Sheriff Tom Altiere released two composite sketches Wednesday of the suspect in a Sunday afternoon assault on a 66-year-old woman on a rural Hartford Township road.

The sheriff’s office called on the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation, which sent an agent to produce pictures of the suspect — one based on the description given by the assault victim and one based on the description of a witness.

The victim told police she was riding her bicycle at 2:30 p.m. on Custer Orangeville Road just north of the Sharon Speedway when a man about 30 years old in a gray Impala or similar GM car approached her twice, the second time grabbing her and pulling her off the road, choking her and attempting to rape her.

Jason Bonar, an off-duty Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper, came through on his motorcycle and confronted the man, but the man got into his car, drove it into the trooper, slightly injuring him, and drove off.

The woman, who was treated at an area hospital, told police that if not for the trooper, “she thinks she’d be dead” because she was nearly “choked out,” Deputy Jolene Marcello said.

Anyone recognizing the man in the picture is asked to call the sheriff’s office at 330-675-2508.