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Warren thieves steal utility cables, disrupt phone, Internet service

WARREN

The theft of two 60-foot cables strung on utility poles behind 1509 Parkman Road NW disrupted telephone and Internet service to up to 500 businesses and residents in the northwest quadrant of the city for much of the day Friday.

A Century Link representative contacted Warren Police Department at 11:10 a.m. about the theft, saying it had occurred sometime overnight.

Its location is near Drexel Avenue Northwest.

The cost to replace the cables, which were 11/2- to 2-inches in diameter will be about $10,000, officials estimate.

Because of the cost of the cable, the theft was entered into the report as felony theft, and because of the effect on customers, it was also entered in as a disruption of public services.

Ohio Edison reported the theft of 70 feet of braided ground wire from a substation on Mahoning Avenue Northwest on March 6.

Warren woman reports attack and knifing

WARREN

A 29-year--old city woman was treated at ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital for a cut on her hand that she said she suffered at 2:30 a.m. Friday at North Park and Belmont avenues when she was attacked by a man with a knife.

The woman said she and a 24-year-old male were walking to the store when three men with knives knocked her and the man to the ground, and one of them cut her.

Both victims got up and ran away and eventually made it to the hospital on foot. The male victim said he was not knocked down. Both victims said they didn’t get a good look at the men.