Obscenity charge

Obscenity charge

YOUNGSTOWN

A Ridgelawn Avenue man is in the Mahoning County jail on $150,000 bond after he was arraigned in municipal court Friday on a charge of pandering obscenity involving a minor.

Richard Chacone, 33, was arrested after city police, the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office and the state Bureau of Criminal Investigation served a search warrant at his home Thursday investigating computer crimes against children, a news release from the state attorney general’s office said.

Chacone also was issued a no contact order and ordered to stay away from his home should he post bail during his arraignment.

Library officials

YOUNGSTOWN

The board of the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County honored three retiring trustees: Clarence R. Smith Jr., Kathryn Bennett and C. Gilbert James. Also honored were three longtime employees who retired this fall: Krista Sawyckyj, reader services supervisor, and Diane Hvisdak, a clerk, both after 40 years; and Terrie Smith, Austintown branch head clerk, after 30 years.

Tanning bed law

COLUMBUS

Teens and younger children will have to get their parents’ written permission to use tanning beds under law changes approved by the Ohio Senate on Thursday.

HB 131 passed on a vote of 26-4 and heads back to the Ohio House for concurrence on amendments.

The legislation would require consent forms for anyone using “fluorescent sun lamp tanning services at a tanning facility,” according to an analysis by the state’s Legislative Service Commission.

Adults (those 18 or older) could sign the forms themselves one time. Tanning business customers 16 or 17 would need to have a parent or legal guardian sign in person at the business.

Children younger than 16 would require consent forms signed by a parent or legal guardian in person for each tanning session, and the latter would have to remain at the business during the session.

Theft investigated

BOARDMAN

Township police are investigating a case of theft after an organization for developmentally disabled individuals reported prescription drugs missing from its supply.

The program director for Gateways to Better Living, 4665 South Ave., reported to police Thursday that he received a “strange” phone call from a woman who told him that one of his employees, whose name is redacted from the police report, was stealing drugs from the facility.

The director then had the staff do a prescription inventory. The staff found that about 40 prescription drug pills belonging to residents were missing.

The director told police that he has no evidence that the suspect identified in the phone call took the medication, except for the phone call.

School program

CANFIELD

The third-grade class at South Range Elementary School will be performing “I Need a Christmas Vacation” free to the public at 7 p.m. Thursday in the school auditorium, 11300 Columbiana-Canfield Road.

The program will showcase students singing about the different places they would travel to for vacation. The show also will feature ballet-dancing football players, fiesta dancers and other forms of dance from around the world.

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