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2 injured in crash

WEATHERSFIELD

A Hermitage woman remained in St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital on Saturday night with a fracture, and a 38-year-old Austintown man was treated at the hospital but released Saturday after a two-car crash on Austintown-Warren Road near the Meander Bridge at 8:03 p.m. Friday.

Antoinette Kaczmarczyk was westbound, and Mark Rodgers was eastbound when Kaczmarczyk’s vehicle fishtailed, and Rodgers tried to avoid it by applying his brakes, the Ohio State Highway Patrol said.

The two vehicles crashed head-on. The roads were ice- and snow-covered, the patrol said. The injuries were not life-threatening.

Burglary arrest

YOUNGSTOWN

Ryan A. Berry, 36, of Crandall Drive, was taken to the Mahoning County Adult Justice Center early Saturday, charged with burglary after police traced footprints in the snow that led from a home that had been burglarized.

A resident of the 500 block of Francisca Avenue on the North Side reported that someone tried to break into her house through the rear kitchen window at 5:34 a.m.

When police arrived, they found plastic from the window pulled back and other evidence of forced entry and noticed footprints in the snow below the window. Nothing was missing from the home.

Police officers and police dog Helo traced the footsteps in the snow from the window to nearby Juanita Avenue, then to another nearby house on Francisca, where Berry was sitting on the front porch.

Berry said he was waiting for his friend at that house to answer the door so he could visit, but the house was dark, Berry’s pants had snow on the bottom, and his shoes matched the shoeprints in the snow, police said.

Tax evasion charges

WARREN

A Mahoning Avenue business and its owner have been indicted in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court on charges that the business failed to remit the state taxes the business collected to the state. Forty-eight counts of failing to remit state taxes were filed against Kevin L. Evans, 37, of Beal Street Northwest, and K & C Quality Custom Car Care LLC. If convicted, Evans could get more than 50 years in prison or probation. Evans spent 50 months in federal prison starting in 2003 after being convicted of fraud.

Assault indictment

WARREN

An 18-year-old Logan Avenue man has been indicted on two counts of felonious assault in connection with a gun fight with another man on Logan Avenue on Sept. 29. Police said Carlos Davis III fired a gun at a 27-year-old man after a dispute at the Market Food Mart at the corner of Logan Avenue and East Market Street.