Saturday, July 16, 2011
Road closing
LAKE MILTON
Mahoning Avenue will be closed between South East River Road and Grandview Road Monday through Friday for a culvert replacement, the Mahoning County Engineer’s office has announced. Traffic will be detoured along North East River Road and County Line and Grandview roads.
Pleads innocent
WARREN
David Limbeck, 21, of East Trumbull Avenue, Girard, pleaded innocent Friday in Warren Municipal Court to aggravated burglary after police say he confronted a resident of a Mahoning Avenue home and took her laptop computer Thursday afternoon. He was ordered held without eligibility to make bond on the first- degree felony.
Police said the victim and her friend arrived at her house at 3 p.m. and found the man there. He ran toward Packard Music Hall with the computer, then crossed into Packard Park and left the computer in bushes near the bridge over the Mahoning River.
Police looked around the Dunstan Drive Northwest area and found Limbeck, who matched the description of the burglar, hiding under a bed in a Dunstan Drive home.
Limbeck, who showed officers where he left the laptop, also was charged with a misdemeanor of possessing drug-abuse instruments after officers found a syringe from his pocket.
Drug charges
WARREN
Jason Kirksey, 32, of Spring Street Southwest, pleaded innocent Friday in Warren Municipal Court to aggravated drug trafficking after a raid on his home that resulted from a three-month investigation.
He also pleaded innocent to being a felon in possession of a firearm and a misdemeanor marijuana charge.
Agents from the Trumbull Ashtabula Group Law Enforcement Task Force and other agencies entered the home at 7:30 a.m. Thursday, finding Kirksey, a handgun, a rifle, crack cocaine, $142 in cash, marijuana, syringes, police scanner and prescription drugs. Kirksey is in Trumbull County Jail.
Search for weapon
NEW MIDDLETOWN
Village police are searching for the knife reportedly used to stab a 14-year-old boy Thursday. Police said the boy told officers he was attacked by two other juveniles around 8:20 p.m. Thursday behind the elementary school on Main Street. The boy said the juveniles held a knife to his throat and beat him.
Officers charged a 15- and a 16-year-old boy with aggravated menacing and felonious assault. Both suspects were taken to the Martin P. Joyce Juvenile Justice Center.
The 14-year-old boy was treated at the hospital for a broken foot, police said. It is unknown what caused the fight, and the knife used in the assault was thrown in the elementary school area and hasn’t been recovered, police said.
Meals for children at Firestone Park
COLUMBIANA
The Siembida & Boggs Philanthropic Foundation is providing free meals for low-income children 18 and younger and those 26 and younger with disabilities at 11:30 a.m. Monday and succeeding Mondays through Aug. 22.
The meals, served by foundation volunteers, will be available at Shelter No. 4 in the city’s Firestone Park.
For more information, contact Crystal at 330-482-9105. An RSVP isn’t required but appreciated so enough meals are prepared for the children.
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