School bus vandalized

School bus vandalized

BOARDMAN

A Mahoning County Board of Developmental Disabilities school bus was vandalized over the holiday weekend.

The bus had a passenger-side window smashed in, a cracked front windshield, numerous dents and the handle damaged to the passenger-side door, a Boardman police report detailed. The damage occurred sometime between 4 p.m. Nov. 26 and 8 a.m. Monday in the MCBDD’s parking lot, 160 Marwood Circle, and amounted to about $1,500.

The report said “several small river-type rocks were observed around the truck.”

Suspect found in Calif.

SALEM

A former Salem man was arrested Monday in Long Beach, Calif., on a warrant for rape and sexual-battery charges, The Vindicator’s broadcast partner 21 WFMJ-TV reports.

Police issued an arrest warrant Nov. 24 for Rafael Colon, 38. Police said he fled to California to avoid charges of unlawful conduct with a minor, rape and sexual battery.

Colon was arrested Monday after police in Long Beach caught him during a rooftop chase.

It could take months for Colon to be extradited from California, local authorities said.

Woman faces charges

WARREN

A woman is being kept in the Trumbull County Jail with no chance to make bond until a Friday hearing after she was charged with driving drunk with seven children in the car. The children, age 2 to 11, were not wearing seat belts.

Arie’lo Davis, 31, of Lancer Court, was arraigned Tuesday in Warren Municipal Court, pleading not guilty to drunken driving, child endangering, driving under suspension and a seat-belt violation.

She was arrested at 10:10 p.m. Monday after police were called to the West Side and spotted Davis at a drive-thru store at West Market Street and Southern Boulevard. Her license was suspended, and she smelled of alcohol, police said.

Brine to be explained

WARREN

Those who attend today’s Trumbull County commissioners’ meeting will learn the type of brine the county engineer’s office plans to use this winter on roads is not the kind that comes from fracking.

Instead, the brine is “ancient seawater” that has been dormant underground for “millions of years,” said Jack Simon, a spokesman for the engineer’s office.

The engineer’s office has been discussing alternatives to using normal salt and grit mixtures in their salt trucks this winter in light of the dramatically higher cost of salt this year.

Police ID dumpers

CHAMPION

Detective work by the Champion Police Department has identified the company responsible for dumping a house worth of trash along a well road near the Western Reserve Greenway bike trail.

What’s still not clear is whether the workers from the Hudson company will face the wrath of a Trumbull County judge or the wrath of their boss.

Champion police talked to a representative of REO Property Services of Hudson on Tuesday who said he had “already been contacted about the incident and is planning on taking care of the cleanup.”

Officer investigated

NILES

A Niles police officer is under investigation for possible misuse of force, Vindicator broadcast partner 21 WFMJ-TV reports.

A woman told police the officer assaulted her boyfriend in front of her two children Nov. 25 after following them in his cruiser with his lights and sirens off while on duty, according to WFMJ.

Lindsay Mulhall said officer Todd Mobley stopped them, grabbed her boyfriend, slammed him against the cruiser and threatened him. She said the incident arose over a gas can that went missing from the home of the officer’s mother, who lives near Mulhall.

Niles Law Director Terry Dull said the incident is under investigation.