Poland and Boardman police calls

POLICE CALLS

A summary of recent criminal activity in Poland and Boardman townships:

POLAND

Jan. 31

Drugs: Police stopped a vehicle near New Castle Road, where they reported finding individual packages of suspected marijuana totaling 25.6 grams. No arrests had been made at the time of the report, however.

Menacing: A student at Poland Seminary High School, 3199 Dobbins Road, reported having been threatened.

Feb. 4

Theft: About $200 worth of merchandise was stolen from Giant Eagle, 3130 Center Road.

Theft: Drums and rotors, tractor wheels and a truck bumper were stolen from a residence in the 4100 block of Arrel Road.

BOARDMAN

Feb. 3

Fraud: An employee with Pharmacy Data Management, 1170 E. Western Reserve Road, discovered someone has been using the company’s shipping code without permission, resulting in $943 worth of unauthorized charges.

Theft: Police charged a 17-year-old Euclid, Ohio, boy w in the theft of a $24 T-shirt from Macy’s in the Southern Park Mall.

Identity theft: A Spring Park Drive woman reported receiving bills to her credit card totaling $612.63 in someone else’s name.

Theft: Mary L. Adams, 52, of 7531 Struthers Road, Poland, faced a felony count after $537 worth of clothing and jewelry was stolen from Macy’s.

Theft: A Melbourne Avenue woman noticed a $150 unauthorized charge to her credit card.

Auto theft: A 2008 Dodge Intrepid was stolen in the 6000 block of Applecrest Court.

Feb. 4

Theft: Both license plates were removed from a vehicle in the 90 block of Stadium Drive.

Theft: Police charged Jessica E. Williams, 23, of 831 E. Washington St., New Castle, Pa., with stealing $80 worth of cosmetics from Walmart, 1300 Doral Drive.

Vandalism: Someone spray-painted the front-entrance area to a Boardman-Canfield Road doctor’s office.

Menacing: A Centervale Avenue man told police an uncle threatened to harm and kill him.

Threat: A Glenwood Avenue boy said a caller threatened to kill him.

Drugs: A traffic stop on U.S. Route 224 led to the arrest of 37-year-old Joseph M. Morris, 47 Lincoln Ave., East Liverpool, on a felony charge of drug abuse (crack cocaine) and a misdemeanor charge of possession of drug paraphernalia. A police dog found small pieces of a substance that tested positive for cocaine as well as a suspected crack pipe, a report said.

Theft: Police charged a 17-year-old city girl was charged in the theft of cosmetics from Walmart.

Feb. 5

Theft: A man discovered $65 missing after he left a township movie theater.

Harassment: A Risher Road man and his daughter reported receiving a series of threatening calls.

Assault: A Cook Avenue man told authorities a man punched his mouth and choked him, then threatened to use a gun to kill the accuser.

Burglary: To a home in the 1600 block of Palo Verde Drive by unknown means. Stolen were a $300 wristwatch, a DVD player and six DVDs.

Theft: A man in his 40s left Inner Circle Pizza, 1816 Boardman-Poland Road, without paying his $19.28 food bill.

Criminal damaging: A car in the 6000 block of Applecrest Court sustained $500 in paint damage.

Theft: Three Youngstown girls, one age 16 and two age 17, were charged with taking 20 lingerie items from Walmart.

Feb. 6

Theft: Two pieces of jewelry were taken from a residence in the 7400 block of Hitchcock Road. The theft came to $1,700.

Theft: Benjamin A. Persohn, 30, of 633 Riley Ave., East Liverpool, was charged, accused of stealing eight articles of men’s clothing from Macy’s.

Misuse of a credit card: A Red Tail Hawk Drive man realized someone tried to make several unauthorized purchases with his credit card.

Assault: Police responded to a fight between two women in the 5300 block of Southern Boulevard. One woman reported having been punched; the other said much of her hair was pulled out.

Felonious assault: Authorities conducting an investigation in the 4500 block of Waseka Lane charged 50-year-old Christopher Cunningham, 212 Upland Ave., Youngstown, with felonious assault, intimidation and obstructing official business after the homeowner reported having been hit over the head with a chair. Cunningham also threatened numerous times to kill officers, and to blow up the township government building, police said.

Feb. 7

Robbery: Police took custody of 39-year-old Brandon J. Schmitt, who was in the Allegheny County, Pa., Jail and wanted on a warrant from the township. Schmitt, of 7015 Market St. Boardman, was accused in the Jan. 13 robbery of First National Bank, 7025 Market.

Theft: Michael J. Foster, 42, of 327 Foster Road,Volant, Pa., was charged with stealing 21 pieces of copper fittings from Home Depot, 7001 Southern Blvd.

Theft: Forty-eight compact discs and change were removed from a car in the 50 block of Maple Drive.

Theft/damage: Two vehicles in the 60 block of Clifton Drive were found with broken passenger-side windows. Similar incidents were reported in the 30 block of Clifton and the 4700 block of Market Street.

Criminal damaging: A vehicle’s window was smashed in the 4600 block of Market Street.

Assault/damage: A Youngstown woman alleged her former boyfriend deliberately slammed into her, causing her to strike a wall, at a South Avenue restaurant, then kicked and punched her car.

Theft: A laptop computer, a projector and a duffel bag were taken from a vehicle in the 40 block of Shadyside Drive.

Criminal damaging: A car in the 50 block of Willow Drive had a shattered window. Damage was estimated at $700.