Legal Aid line down
Legal Aid line down
YOUNGSTOWN
Community Legal Aid’s HelpLine will temporarily close today, Monday and Tuesday for staff training.
The HelpLine (800-998-9454) will reopen Wednesday at 9 a.m.
Legal Aid’s online application system will remain open while the HelpLine is closed. To apply online, visit www.communitylegalaid.org.
Established in 1952, Community Legal Aid provides civil legal services to low-income individuals and families as well as seniors in eight Northeast Ohio counties including Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana.
Fire-for-insurance case
YOUNGSTOWN
A federal grand jury has indicted a city woman on allegations of having set a fire for insurance money, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Ohio announced Thursday.
Latasha Curtis, 33, was indicted on charges of conspiracy, use of fire during the commission of a felony, one count of maliciously damaging and destroying, and attempting to damage and destroy, by means of real fire, real property used in interstate commerce and in activity affecting interstate commerce.
A news release from the U.S. attorney’s office states that Curtis acted in concert with others known to the grand jury, but not charged, to burn down a rental property at 75 Hilton Ave. in Youngstown on Oct. 19. The release says Curtis and others set the building on fire.
She submitted a false insurance claim that paid her almost $68,000, the release says.
According to court records, an arraignment date has not yet been set. The case was investigated by the FBI, the release says.
Child-porn indictment
YOUNGSTOWN
U.S. Attorney Steven M. Dettelbach for the Northern District of Ohio announced Thursday that a New Middletown man has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges involving sexual images of minors.
Joey Thomas Holt, 56, was indicted on one count of receiving, distributing and possessing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, according to a U.S. attorney’s news release.
The release said that from Dec. 8 through Feb. 20, Holt received and distributed and also had two computers that contained child pornography March 6. The FBI investigated the case. Court records say Holt was arrested March 6 and arraigned, and is in jail without bond.
Felon with firearm
YOUNGSTOWN
A city man was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
U.S. Attorney Steven M. Dettelbach for the Northern District of Ohio said in a news release that Whittington R. Davis, 27, was found with a .380-caliber semiautomatic pistol and ammunition Feb. 1, despite a conviction for possession of cocaine in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, which prevents him from owning a firearm.
The case was investigated by the Warren Police Department and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Last week, two other men, Alex Green, 28, of Campbell and Darryl Lee, 25, of Youngstown, were indicted on the same charges.
Defendant arrested
YOUNGSTOWN
A man having a preliminary hearing on a weapons charge in municipal court Wednesday was arrested on a warrant for the robbery of a North Side restaurant March 17.
Michael Green, 19, of Youngstown, is in the Mahoning County jail on $30,000 bond on a charge of aggravated robbery after he was arrested in court.
He is accused of pointing a gun at an employee of Main Moon Restaurant, 1760 Belmont Ave., about 10:30 p.m. March 17 and taking $300 from the cash register and two cellphones from customers, according to police reports.
The weapons charge Green was facing was bound over to a Mahoning County grand jury.
Category lists updated
CANFIELD
Three Canfield Fair departments — arts and crafts, fine arts and floral — have updated their category lists and soon will be ready to distribute them.
This year’s Silver Spoon contest, in which each entrant uses the same recipe, is basket- weave cinnamon-sugar cookies. Entrants in the junior baking contest will make orange drop cookies.
Those who exhibited in the arts and crafts department in 2013 automatically will receive the 2014 category book. New exhibitors wanting to receive a category book should call the Canfield Fair at 330-533-4107, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday, or write to Canfield Fair, P.O. Box 250, Canfield 44406.
The deadline is April 10. After that date, potential entrants will need to send in proper postage to receive the category book.