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Walking in the street

YOUNGSTOWN

Police found a loaded semiautomatic pistol Monday on a South Side street near a man who was cited for walking in the street and obstructing official business.

Officers spotted 18-year-old Marquis Dates of East Dewey Avenue in front of a home in the 100 block of East Avondale Avenue about 7:20 p.m. walking and dancing in the street.

Police stopped him because walking in the street is not allowed unless the sidewalk is not passable. Reports said Dates gave officers a fake name.

Police also found a loaded .25-caliber handgun near him, but Dates was not charged because they could not link the weapon to him. A records check showed the gun was stolen last year, reports said. Officers took the gun for evidence.

Silencer dealer

YOUNGSTOWN

A federal grand jury in Cleveland recently indicted a 37-year-old Columbiana man on charges of manufacturing and dealing in silencer firearms without a license and possessing a silencer not registered to him.

Brent See was charged with committing these offenses between July 2013 and January 2014, the U.S. attorney said. The case was investigated by U.S. postal inspectors and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. It is being prosecuted by David M. Toepfer, the Youngstown-based assistant U.S. attorney.

Tax-discount period to end in Pennsylvania

NEW CASTLE, PA.

The Lawrence County Treasurer’s Office is reminding all taxpayers the discount period for paying 2014 county taxes ends Monday.

Payments will be accepted in cash, check or credit card. For credit-card payments, a third-party convenience fee will be applied in order to save the county associated costs. The office will also accept payments by mail if they are postmarked by Monday. For information, call 724-656-2124.

Sentenced to 7 years

YOUNGSTOWN

A federal judge in Pittsburgh has sentenced a 62-year-old Warren man to seven years in prison after his conviction for possessing with intent to distribute crack cocaine and heroin, the U.S. attorney said.

Matthew Hosey, whose offense occurred April 24, 2013, will be on supervised release for six years after he leaves prison under the sentence imposed on him Monday by U.S. District Court Judge Cathy Bissoon.

The case was investigated by the FBI, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the Southwest Regional Police Department, Pennsylvania State Police and Attorney General’s Office.

Check cashed twice

BOARDMAN

Police arrested a 21-year-old township woman on a misdemeanor charge of passing a bad check.

Daniecia Turner of Red Fox Drive is accused of cashing a payroll check twice. Turner worked at the Dunkin Donuts on East Western Reserve Road until Sept. 22, 2013.

A manager with Spice Mill Inc. on Market Street alleged Turner cashed the $388.30 check on Sept. 9, 2013, and once again on March 12, according to a police report.

Turner was released on a summons after she completed the booking process Monday at Boardman Police Department. She has a pretrial hearing scheduled at 5 p.m. May 15 in Mahoning County Area Court here. Extended hours

Extended hours at Lanterman’s Mill

YOUNGSTOWN

Mill Creek MetroParks’ Lanterman’s Mill will have extended hours Thursday. The Mill will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays.

The Lake Glacier and Lake Newport Boathouses are open from 11:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. starting May 3 and will remain open on the weekends.

Child-sex charges

CRANBERRY, PA.

An East Palestine, Ohio, man is in the Butler County, Pa., prison in lieu of $150,000 bond after police said he went to Cranberry Township, Pa., to meet someone he believed was a 14-year-old girl, to have a sexual encounter.

Jacob Meadows, 21, of East North Avenue, is charged with unlawful contact with a minor, attempted involuntary deviant sexual intercourse, and criminal use of a communications facility, the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office said.

Undercover agents from that office and Cranberry Township police recovered sexually explicit messages from the girl’s cellphone, then assumed her identity and exchanged about 500 text messages with Meadows in the five months before his arrest, the AG’s office said.

Meadows was arrested when he arrived Friday evening at a pre-arranged Cranberry Township location.

Passed out cooking

YOUNGSTOWN

Firefighters were called to a 1122 Burlington Ave. apartment about 2:10 a.m. Tuesday after a man passed out on a couch while cooking.

When firefighters arrived, they found the man on the couch and he would not wake up, reports said. Reports said there was a smell of burnt food, and smoke detectors were going off and a neighbor thought the apartment was on fire.

The man told ambulance workers he drank liquor and smoked marijuana earlier in the evening, reports said. Reports said firefighters had to climb in a window to get in because the man could not wake up to answer the door.

The apartment was ventilated and firefighters left, reports said.