One arrested at local landfill

Staff report

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U.S. marshals with the Northern Ohio Fugitive Task Force arrested two men Monday morning on local charges.

Thomas Wilson, 47, of Poland was arrested about 3 a.m. as he was sleeping in the cab of a semi-truck as he waited for a landfill to open in Poland Township.

Wilson was wanted on charges of gross sexual imposition on three underage victims, a news release from the task force said.

Marshals had been searching for Wilson for about two weeks, but his job as a long-distance truck driver made it hard to track him down.

Marshals got word, however, that Wilson would be at the landfill, and they found his truck and surrounded it before arresting him.

He was taken to the Mahoning County jail.

Marshals also arrested Joseph Altenburg, 26, of Beaver Falls, Pa., about 4:40 a.m. Monday in a home in East Palestine.

The release said Altenburg, who is believed to be a member of the Pagans motorcycle gang, was wanted on three charges of felonious assault and a charge of failure to comply with the order or signal of a police officer for an incident in Struthers in July.

Police said that while drunk, Altenburg ran his car into three women in a Struthers parking lot, injuring all three, before leaving. Police have been looking for him since then, the release said.

Altenburg was tracked to his grandfather’s house in Calcutta last week but he was able to get away before marshals could arrive, the release said.

He also is in the Mahoning County jail.