Historical society to host tours

Historical society to host tours

Salem

The Salem Historical Society will host Underground Railroad tours using the Quakertown Trolley starting at 1:30 p.m. Sunday.

The cost is $10 per person, and reservations are required. Call 330-337-6733. The tours will start at the society, 208 S. Broadway Ave., and guide Jeanne Martinelli will discuss Salem’s anti-slavery movement. Martinelli will talk about life in 1856 and show more than 100 slides of abolitionists and Salem homes that were on the Underground Railroad.

Man, woman face drug charges

CAMPBELL

Police responding to a suspicious car parked behind the Dairy Queen on McCartney Road about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday arrested a 19-year-old Canfield woman for possession of drugs and drug-abuse instruments, as well as child endangerment.

Police found Samantha McCourt, along with a man and an infant boy, sitting in the grass next to the car behind the building.

When officers began to approach, McCourt nervously attempted to place something in her shirt; she finally showed them a needle containing suspected heroin, police said.

Mark Mikolaj of Girard, 51, told police that the car was his. Inside, officers found a medicine bottle containing suspected crack cocaine. Mikolaj was charged with possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia, along with child endangerment.

Two flee from officers in Campbell

CAMPBELL

Police responded to Martha Avenue about 6:30 p.m. Monday, after multiple complaints of a four-wheeler obstructing traffic and being operated recklessly.

They ordered the driver to stop, but he fled up a driveway and out of sight behind the house. An officer began to run after him.

Shortly afterward, police told 24-year-old Lyndon M. Nelson Jr., who lives at the residence and was arrested in March for possession of drug-abuse instruments, that he was under arrest for disorderly conduct for yelling profanities at neighbors across the street.

Officers were hesitant, however, to try to secure Nelson, who was holding a baby. Nelson then tossed the baby into the arms of a woman and fled on foot. He eventually disappeared out of sight.

Officers searched the area for Nelson and for the man on the four-wheeler, but did not find them.

Commissioner issues apology

MERCER, Pa. (AP)

Mercer County Commissioner Brian Beader has apologized for his drunken-driving arrest at a state police checkpoint and says his actions were “foolish.” Beader says in a statement issued Wednesday that “he should never have been driving” and doesn’t anticipate that his voluntary blood- alcohol test will “bode well.”

Troopers from the Pennsylvania State Police have yet to say what the test revealed after Beader, a 43-year-old Democrat from Hermitage, was arrested about 1:40 a.m. Saturday. State police say Beader was stopped by a roving checkpoint after a trooper saw him driving erratically.

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