POLICE CALLS IN POLAND, BOARDMAN

POLICE CALLS

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

POLAND

July 20

Recovered property: A .22-caliber revolver and 37 cartridges were found in the 6600 block of Clingan Road, though authorities said the firearm had not been stolen.

July 21

Thefts: Police responded to a series of vehicle break-ins on Highland Avenue and Coblentz Drive, from which compact discs, loose change, a wallet and other items were missing.

July 24

Theft: Two cellphones and $10 were stolen from a car in the 2000 block of Renwick Drive.

Identity theft: A Coblentz Drive man told police the Internal Revenue Service informed him that someone had used the accuser’s identity without authorization.

BOARDMAN

July 20

Theft: The rear license plate was removed from a car in the 7400 block of South Avenue.

Counterfeit: Two fake $50 bills were discovered at Giant Eagle, 1201 Doral Drive.

Harassment: A Trotwood Drive business reported getting threatening calls.

Vandalism: Three loading-dock doors were damaged at American Freight Furniture Inc., 6224 South Ave.

Theft: A worker for a Boardman-Canfield Road business noticed two computer-related parts missing from a desk drawer.

Identity fraud: An elderly Pearson Circle woman discovered one of her checks had been cashed for $447 without consent and that she never received a refund as promised.

Theft: Five women stole about $100 worth of merchandise from Dollar General, 5953 South Ave.

Felonious assault: Charges of domestic violence and felonious assault were pending against a woman after an Oregon Trail woman reported having been stabbed in the abdomen with a butcher knife. The accuser was hospitalized for her injuries.

Harassment: A Youngstown-Poland Road woman said she received several such text messages.

Menacing: A Franco Court man reported a tenant made several threatening calls to him.

Public indecency: A woman in the 1900 block of Boardman-Poland Road told officers a man urinated on her car’s driver’s side and exposed himself to her.

Theft: A laptop computer, a checkbook and two credit cards were removed from a vehicle in the 100 block of Mill Creek Drive.

Aggravated menacing: A Moyer Avenue man walking on nearby South Avenue reported two men got out of a vehicle, then chased and threatened several times to harm him.

July 21

Unauthorized use of a vehicle: A South Avenue man said his 2000 Chevrolet Blazer S-10 vehicle was taken without permission.

Criminal mischief: Someone in the 7500 block of Hitchcock Road intentionally deflated a vehicle’s rear tires.

Child endangerment/aggravated menacing: A woman alleged her former husband, of Boardman, threatened to shoot her current husband in front of her two children, one of whom reportedly found a firearm in the former husband’s bedroom.

Attempted burglary: Someone used several windows in an effort to enter a home in the 5000 block of Lockwood Boulevard.

Possible employee theft: An official with The Great Phoenix Trading Co. in the Southern Park Mall alleged a worker has been stealing mainly costume jewelry and money from the business since mid-May.

Theft: A Boardman man told police another man stole the accuser’s $2,200 engagement ring while they were at a Lockwood Boulevard store.

Breaking and entering: Someone smashed a window and entered a home in the 4300 block of Hopkins Road, though it appeared nothing was missing.

Theft: A woman stole $20 worth of women’s clothing from Rainbow Apparel, 1208 Doral Drive.

Theft: Shanice M. Harris, 24, of 137 Shields Road, Boardman, and 32-year-old Latonya L. Fowler, 451 Crandall Ave., Youngstown, were charged, accused of stealing $106 worth of clothing from Walmart, 1300 Doral Drive.

Theft: Two women left Perkins Family Restaurant, 804 Boardman-Poland Road, without paying their $23.35 food bill.

July 22

Drug paraphernalia: A traffic stop on Trenholm Drive resulted in a charge of possession of drug paraphernalia against 57-year-old James R. Coffin, 272 Shields Road, Boardman, when, police said, a suspected crack pipe was found.

Attempted identity theft: A guest at a South Avenue motel reported a caller claimed the motel’s computer system had malfunctioned and that he would need the accuser’s credit-card information to process his payment.

Theft: One hundred CDs, a CD holder, a speaker box, an amplifier and two subwoofers were removed from a car in the 5000 block of Aravesta Avenue.

Menacing: An employee with a South Avenue motel reported a male guest who wanted to check out earlier than planned threatened the worker when he refused to give the guest a refund.

Arrest: The Ohio State Highway Patrol held 23-year-old Marcus Pearson, 541 E. Boston Ave., Youngstown, who was wanted on township warrants charging him with aggravated menacing and domestic violence. Pearson’s estranged wife, of Boardman, alleged that while in a vehicle, he had grabbed her shirt, attempted to pull the accuser from the car and pointed a gun to her head.

Theft: A man and a woman stole a Bluetooth device, a wireless microphone and other property from Kmart, 1209 Boardman-Poland Road.

Arrest: Police responded to an apparently disoriented person in the 6500 block of Market Street, where they took into custody 32-year-old Peter R. Brown, 6110 Market, who was wanted on a warrant from Putnam County, Ohio.

Theft: A woman stole two cellphone cases from AT&T, 7125 Tiffany Blvd.

Misuse of a credit card: A man who had lost his wallet at a South Avenue business learned his debit card was used twice without authorization.

Menacing: An Afton Avenue man said another man threatened to beat him up.

Theft: Someone entered a vehicle on Friendship Avenue and took a $150 global-positioning-system unit and a Bluetooth device.

Burglary: To a residence in the 5000 block of Irma Avenue, after someone had cut a rear-door screen. Missing were several pieces of jewelry and rare dollar bills.

Theft: Police charged David C. Fasano, 31, of 4299 Glenwood Ave., Boardman, with stealing $125 worth of merchandise from Gabriel Bros., 850 Boardman-Poland Road.

July 23

Assault: A Youngstown woman in the 4000 block of Hillman Way alleged several family members and relatives punched her right eye, then knocked her to the ground and resumed punching her before striking the accuser’s head with what she thought was a beer bottle.

Theft: A 14-foot siding brake valued at $1,800 was stolen from Dearing Compressor & Pump Co., 3974 Simon Road.

Counterfeit: Two women and a man used a total of seven phony $100 bills to pay for merchandise at Target, 417 Boardman-Poland Road.

Theft of services: Someone used a trash container in the 500 block of Bev Road without permission.

Drugs: A traffic stop near Stanton Avenue resulted in a 17-year-old New Middletown boy’s arrest on one felony drug-possession charge and a misdemeanor count of possession of drug paraphernalia. Found were a pipe with suspected marijuana residue, as well as a brown powder in a cigarette pack that appeared to be heroin, police said.

July 24

Weapon: Officers investigated a suspicious person near Windsor Road, then charged John E. Hecker, 28, with a misdemeanor count of carrying a concealed weapon. Hecker, of West Judson Avenue, Youngstown, had a concealed-carry permit but lied to police about having a loaded revolver on him, a report showed.

Assault/vandalism: A Poland man on Hitchcock Road told police another man punched his face while the accuser was in his vehicle, then shattered a window to the car.

Criminal damaging: A vehicle in the 5400 block of Southern Boulevard sustained $2,000 in body damage.

Disrupting public services: A Clifton Drive woman noticed someone had deliberately cut her cable wire.

Theft: A Ferncliffe Avenue woman reported the theft of a FedEx package containing $200 worth of merchandise from her front porch.

Theft/drugs: Police charged 20-year-old Shannon N. Lesher, 125 Mount Airy Road, New Castle, Pa., with theft as well as possession of drug-abuse instruments and drug paraphernalia after a set of headphones was stolen from Sears in the Southern Park Mall. Found in Lesher’s purse were a syringe and a teaspoon with suspected drug residue, a report said.

Domestic violence: Michael R. Shamblin, 19, of 936 Moyer Ave., Boardman, was charged with the crime after a worker for a Boardman doughnut shop alleged her former boyfriend came to her place of employment and threatened to shoot the accuser and her current boyfriend.

Theft: John P. Holbrook Jr., 28, of 1738 Brier St., Niles, was charged in the theft of 10 video games from Target, and was wanted on a warrant from Trumbull County charging him with trafficking in dangerous drugs. Later, the U.S. Marshals Task Force arrested Stanley L Palmer II, 1907 Carnegie Ave., Niles, in connection with the Target theft.

Misuse of a credit card: A township woman at the Southern Park Mall discovered a lost or stolen card of hers was used to make roughly $1,100 worth of unauthorized purchases.

Theft by deception: An elderly township woman told police she sent $1,380 to Rome via Western Union after having received a call from someone claiming to be her grandson who was injured in a vehicular accident and needed the money.

Theft: Nicole M. Rogenski, 27, of 1920 Pointview Road, and Amy M. Brown, 33, of 3667 Sheridan Road, were charged. The two Youngstown women were accused of stealing about $141 worth of property from Kmart.