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Multiple charges

BOARDMAN

A Niles man faces multiple charges after U.S. Marshals arrested him on warrants Tuesday and handed him over to Boardman police.

Joshua Heitman, 35, is charged with felony counts of violation of a protection order and burglary, and misdemeanor counts of domestic violence and aggravated trespass after a woman reported Monday that Heitman, her ex-fiance, entered her Lockwood Boulevard home by force, kicked her in the leg and left with some of his belongings that he left there. Heitman was taken to the Mahoning County jail. He is scheduled to appear in Mahoning County Area Court today.

Wire fraud scheme

ROCHESTER, N.Y.

Paul Lacey, 56, of Youngstown has been arrested and charged with participating in a wire fraud scheme, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of New York.

Lacey went from Ohio to Georgia to open a Bank of America account, into which about $250,000 had illegally been transferred from a lawyer’s account in Dansville, N.Y., before Lacey withdrew large sums, the U.S. attorney said.

The case was investigated by FBI offices in Rochester, N.Y., Atlanta and Youngstown.

Attempted robbery

WARREN

A city man, 21, was treated at ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital for a stab wound he said he suffered in an attempted robbery at the corner of Mahoning Avenue and Comstock Avenue Northwest early Wednesday. The man said he walked home from a Mahoning Avenue tavern about 3 a.m., and a van drove past him, then a man got out and demanded his money. The victim said he refused and a fight began, resulting in the suspect cutting him on the arm with a knife.

Arrest warrant issued

NILES

Justin Riley, 18, charged with carrying a concealed weapon for purportedly videotaping himself brandishing a handgun at the Niles McDonald’s restaurant and posting it on Facebook, did not appear for his hearing in Niles Municipal Court on Wednesday.

Riley, of North Main Street, was due for a second hearing on the felony weapons charge and arraignment on misdemeanor resisting arrest.

Judge Thomas Townley issued an arrest warrant. Riley was free on $5,000 bond after his first hearing.

Owner, dog reunited

BAZETTA

A Warren dog owner is reunited with his pet after police say it was removed from his vehicle in a Walmart parking lot.

Louis Sharp was reunited with Mr. Peanut, a miniature Doberman pinscher, who has been missing since Sunday, according to 21 WFMJ-TV, The Vindicator’s broadcast partner. Sharp says his dog disappeared from his parked car at the Elm Road Walmart on Sunday while he went into the store to make a purchase. Township police asked the public to identify two suspects thought to be involved. A male and female were captured on surveillance cameras. The two know each other, and on Wednesday, police say the female suspect returned the dog to police.

The male suspect, Fred Dengg, contacted 21 News, insisting he was only trying to help the dog after noticing its head was stuck in an open window. He was unable to get Walmart employees to find its owner, so decided to take the dog home, he said.

Police have been unable to confirm that story, and continue to investigate.

Bank-robbery suspect

LIBERTY

Township police are looking for a bank-robbery suspect. The teller at Key Bank on Belmont Avenue tells investigators that the robbery occurred shortly before 11 a.m. Wednesday, according to 21 WFMJ-TV, The Vindicator’s broadcast partner. The teller says the suspect handed over a note demanding money, and after taking cash, he left the bank on foot. The suspect indicated that he had a weapon, although none was seen. The suspect is a black male between age 45 and 55. He was wearing a New York Yankees ball cap, a dark jacket and sunglasses with gold trim.