Wife’s bond reduced

Wife’s bond reduced

WARREN

Bond was reduced from $250,000 to $100,000 in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court for Brooke Hoffman, 38, during her arraignment Wednesday on charges she shot her husband in the thigh and shoulder at their Warren Sharon Road home in Vienna in June.

She was indicted last week on charges of improperly discharging a firearm into a habitation and felonious assault. If convicted, she could get about 20 years in prison.

Police said Brooke Hoffman shot Craig Hoffman, 33, after getting a text message about her husband and another woman that angered her.

Police said she drove around the outside of their home, fired into it, then went inside and fired directly at her husband.

Lisbon Obama office is scheduled to open

LISBON

The campaign to re-elect President Barack Obama will open a field office at 6:30 p.m. today in Lisbon at 7843 state Route 45.

Local supporters of the Democratic president and Greg Schultz, state director for Obama for America in Ohio, will attend the grand opening.

It’s the fifth Obama field office in the Mahoning Valley. The others are in Youngstown, Warren, Boardman and McKinley Heights.

Prostitution charge

NEWTON FALLS

A 21-year-old Columbus-area woman will be arraigned today in Newton Falls Municipal Court on a soliciting-prostitution charge and other offenses related to her arrest at 8 a.m. Wednesday at the Circle K store, 100 East Broad St.

Police said witnesses allege Kaitlin Del Col of Upper Arlington offered sex for cigarettes in the store parking lot.

Dirt bike stolen

YOUNGSTOWN

Police are investigating a dirt bike accident that killed a 19-year-old city man earlier this week.

According to police, Luis Pimentel died when the vehicle he was driving ran into the back of a car at Shaw and Wardle avenues on the East Side at about 8:30 p.m. Monday.

Police have determined the dirt bike was stolen.

ATV pins officer

YOUNGSTOWN

A city woman faces multiple traffic violations and a misdemeanor receiving stolen property charge after a traffic accident Wednesday that sent an officer to the hospital with minor injuries.

According to police, the woman, identified in a broadcast report as Elsa Rodriguez, was driving a stolen all-terrain vehicle in the area of Albert and Valley streets on the East Side at about 9:30 a.m. when she was stopped by Officer Ken Blair.

Rodriguez did not attempt to flee, but the ATV lurched forward pinning the officer’s leg between the ATV and police cruiser.

Blair was taken to an area hospital with minor leg injuries.

Store plans to give away $10 gift cards

POLAND

The new Dollar General Store at 3131 Center Road is giving away a $10 gift card to the first 50 adult customers at the store’s 8 a.m. Saturday grand opening.

The store, which is now open, occupies about 9,000 square feet of the 23,250-square-foot building, which is the former home of Save-A-Lot, Giant Eagle and Phar-Mor. Youngstown-based company Three Generations purchased the building in 1988 for $540,000, according to the Mahoning County Auditor’s Office.

Anyone interested in applying for a job at Dollar General can go online to www.dollargeneral.com in the Career Center.

Building damaged

new castle, pa.

A woman pulling out of a parking lot ended up driving across a road and hitting a building, Neshannock Township Police reported.

Nancy Labianca, 58, of New Castle was pulling out of a parking lot on Wilmington Road when her SUV accelerated and traveled south through the lot at a high speed, driving across Oakwood Way and hitting the Neshannock Diagnostic and Specialty Center at 2915 Wilmington Road, police said.

She was not injured. Police said the building was severely damaged.

AWOL prisoner caught

new castle, pa.

Police caught a prisoner who failed to come back to the Lawrence County Jail after a furlough.

New Castle police and the U.S. Marshal’s Fugitive Task Force found Durand Lawson, 20, Wednesday afternoon in the 100 block of West Wallace Avenue in the city, the Marshal’s Service reported.

Lawson was temporarily released Saturday to attend his brother’s funeral and was to be back at the jail by 2:30 p.m. He did not return.

He was in the jail on felony drug charges, the Marshal’s Service said.

Volunteer officers are added to force

Austintown

The police department added three new volunteer officers to its auxiliary force.

Joel Gensler, Daniel Burich and Ronnie Crum were sworn in as reserve officers during Monday’s trustee meeting.

The new additions bring the reserve force’s total to four men, said Police Chief Bob Gavalier.

Gavalier said due to upcoming retirements within the department, he expects the reserve officers to become full-time patrolmen within a year, providing they fulfill the necessary requirements.