Deadline to register

Deadline to register

WARREN

April 21 is the deadline to register for the “PowerUp Your Networking” session from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. April 30 at the Raymond John Wean Foundation Western Reserve Room, 146 W. Market St.

This series is designed to provide relevant information while connecting participants with available resources, experts in the field and one another.

The presenter is Maia Beatty of Maia Beatty & Associates, LLC. Beatty’s newest book is “Dance into Your Power,” and she is the winner of the 2011 Connector’s Choice Award for Best Speaker/Facilitator in Northeast Ohio and a nominee for the 2014 Best Corporate Speaker Award.

To register, visit www.rjweanfdn.org. The cost is $10 per person. For information, call 330-394-5600.

Pills found on man

YOUNGSTOWN

Police reports said officers found 14 pills on a man they were arresting about 4:40 p.m. Saturday after he was accused of threatening a woman.

Police were called to a home in the 1300 block of Aberdeen Avenue for a fight and found a man later identified as Frank Little, 24, arguing with several people, and he threatened a woman while in the presence of police, reports said.

As officers went to search him before placing him into custody, they found a plastic bag that 14 pills inside.

Little was booked into the Mahoning County jail on two counts of possession of drugs and menacing.

Sprayed with chemical

YOUNGSTOWN

A West Side woman said she and her 1-year-old daughter were sprayed in the face with a chemical about 12:30 a.m. Saturday.

Reports said police were called to the first block of South Dunlap Avenue, where the 25-year-old woman told police a woman knocked on her door and asked for a man they both know.

The homeowner told police the woman pushed the door open. The homeowner took her daughter to an upstairs bedroom, where the woman found them in a bed and sprayed the chemical in their faces before leaving.

Reports said the woman and her daughter had reddened skin on their faces and bloodshot eyes, which is consistent with being sprayed with chemical spray. Both the homeowner and her daughter were treated by paramedics.

Domestic-violence case

GIRARD

A Liberty woman pleaded not guilty Monday in Girard Municipal Court to a domestic-violence charge after her common-law husband reported that he videotaped her hitting him with her hands and an object she purportedly threw at him.

Regina L. Vancleave, 43, of Colonial Drive, was arrested on the misdemeanor charge at 8 p.m. Sunday. She was released from the Trumbull County jail today after posting a personal-recognizance bond, meaning she didn’t have to pay anything.

The man, 51, said Vancleave argued with him about money and hit him several times.

The video shows her hitting him, saying she wanted to kill him, and throwing either an ashtray or Mason jar at him, striking him, police said. She was first taken to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital for extreme intoxication and then taken to jail.

Facing drug charges

YOUNGSTOWN

Police said they found two syringes and a dose of suspected heroin on a Lisbon man who tried to run from them about 6:35 p.m. Sunday from a vacant house on the East Side.

Reports said officers were called to a home on Albert Street near Verona Avenue for a man entering a vacant house and found Curtis Gearhart, 31. Reports said Gearhart gave police a fake last name, and when Gearhart was told by police he would be searched for weapons, he started running.

Reports said Gearhart was tackled and searched, and the syringes and a dose of suspected heroin were found in his pockets. When officers found out his real last name, they also discovered he had a warrant from Columbiana County, reports said.

Gearhart was taken to the Mahoning County jail on charges of possessing drug-abuse instruments, possession of drugs/heroin, possession of drug paraphernalia and obstructing official business.

Arrested in theft case

CAMPBELL

Brian Santiago, 25, of Campbell was arrested Monday on misdemeanor charges including theft and criminal trespass.

According to a police report, Santiago is accused of ransacking a vehicle at a home on Kimmel Drive. Police located him and conducted a search.

The report states Santiago had two gold loop earrings, one set of silver keys, one black wallet, $21.90 in coins and 12 pills in an unlabeled bottle. He is in city jail on a $9,000 bond pending his court appearance today.

Community Cup event

YOUNGSTOWN

The 26th annual Youngstown Area Community Cup season begins with a breakfast at 7:30 a.m. April 23 at the Central Branch of the Youngstown YMCA, 17 N. Champion St.

Interested companies and organizations are invited to learn about program changes and benefits of participation. The breakfast is free, but reservations are required. Call 330-744-8411, ext. 143.

The 2015 Community Cup will take place Sept. 12 with preliminary events scheduled for the weekends of Aug. 7-8 and Aug. 21-23.

For information, call Jennifer Quinlan, Community Cup director, at 330-742-4794.

The Community Cup has involved more than 80 businesses and organizations and thousands of employees participating in 18 athletic events over the years.

Charged with OVI

BOARDMAN

A Youngstown woman faces a charge of operating a vehicle while impaired after township police arrested her, saying she caused an accident.

Police found Crystal Steinbeck, 28, of Midlothian Boulevard, at her apartment complex after they tracked the license plate of a vehicle they say caused an accident near Market Street and Meadowbrook Avenue and then fled the scene Friday.

Steinbeck was arrested on a charge of OVI and cited for failure to control and leaving the scene of an accident.