Boy rescued from dam

Boy rescued from dam

STRUTHERS

Firefighters rescued a 12-year-old boy who was stranded after climbing about 100 feet up the side of a dam wall at Hamilton Lake near Poland Avenue on Saturday. A resident called police about possibly trapped children. Police arrived at the dam and then notified the fire department.

Officials had to cut through a lock, barbed wire and aluminum fencing to reach the child, a police report states. A fire-rescue unit safely lowered the boy to the ground by using a rappelling apparatus and securing him with a belt strap, the report states. Rural Metro arrived to assist, but the boy did not appear to need medical attention.

Man charged

YOUNGSTOWN

Thomas Welsh, 28, of Alexander Street, is in the Mahoning County jail on $25,000 bond after he is accused of kicking a police officer in the head early Saturday.

Reports said officers were called to Welsh’s home, where a woman said Welsh had punched her several times and kicked her after they had went out drinking.

Officers managed to handcuff Welsh, but he refused to get into a police car, reports said. Reports said several officers tried to get him inside the back of the car. During the struggle, he kicked one of them in the head.

He was arraigned in municipal court Monday on charges of assault on a police officer and resisting arrest.

Road closings

Countyline Donley Road between state Route 534 and Bloomfield Geneva Road in Bloomfield and Mesopotamia townships will be closed from Wednesday through Sept. 9 to replace three culverts.

The recommended detour route is south on state Route 534; east on state Route 87; north on state Route 45; and northwest on Bloomfield Geneva Road.

Sewer repair work

YOUNGSTOWN

Calvary Run Drive and the Lakeview Entrance in Mill Creek Park will be closed beginning Wednesday for sanitary sewer repair work that will be conducted by the Youngstown Public Works Department.

The road will be closed for approximately one week.

Bridge reopens

AUSTINTOWN

A bridge over Interstate 80 reopened Saturday and no more ramp closures are planned this year.

Ohio Department of Transportation spokesman Brent Kovacs said the Four Mile Run bridge over I-80 reopened about 4 p.m. Saturday after it was closed Aug. 17 for pavement repairs.

“No more [ramp] closures this year, but we’ll have some later on in the project,” Kovacs said.

That project is the three-year $108.4 million project to widen and repave I-80 from state Route 46 to state Route 193/Belmont Avenue. The other remaining closure is the ramp from Route 11 northbound to I-80 eastbound is closed through mid-November for a bridge replacement and widening.

Man killed in crash

WARREN

Shemar L. Glover, 19, of Commerce Avenue Northwest, died Sunday in a 5:45 a.m. crash with a tractor-trailer on Elm Road in front of the Elm Road Plaza.

A Warren police report says a semi for Dean Foods was leaving the plaza and making a left turn, eastbound onto Elm Road when Glover’s 2008 Chevrolet minivan struck the side of the trailer.

Glover was westbound, heading toward downtown. Police say speed was apparently a factor in the crash, but they do not have an estimate of how fast the vehicles were traveling.

The driver of the truck, Joseph Shrock Jr., 58, of Greenville, Pa., was not injured.

Vacant homes burn

YOUNGSTOWN

City firefighters battled blazes at two vacant homes over the weekend.

Crews were called to a 56 S. Glenellen Ave. home just before midnight Sunday and found a fire on the porch that was spreading to the second floor. Damage is listed at $15,000.

Reports said an 1810 Hickory St. home collapsed from flames after crews were called about 11:15 p.m. Saturday and the decision was made to allow it to burn down because it was already fully engulfed in flames. Damage there is listed at $4,000. There were no injuries in either blaze.

Assault reported

WARREN

A man, 26, of Warren said he was robbed, assaulted and all his clothes taken from him at 10 p.m. Sunday on Southern Boulevard near West Market Street.

The man said he left an apartment building on Southern Boulevard and six to eight unidentified people attacked him, knocking him to the ground, kicking him and punching him.

In addition to his clothes, the suspects took his book bag, which had a wallet and headphones. Police said the man had a swollen right ankle, right side of his face, bruised sides near his ribs, busted lips and slurred speech because of swelling. He went to St. Joseph Warren Hospital for treatment.

Crime Watch meeting

POLAND

Beaver Township Police Crime Watch will meet at 7 p.m. today in the activity center at Shepherd of the Valley, 9111 Sharrott Road.

Police officer Chris Albert will be the guest speaker along with his canine partner, Hero.

Local crime statistics will be the topic of discussion.

Sexual assault reported

WARREN

A girl, 14, reported being sexually assaulted by a male on a bicycle at 12:30 a.m. Monday as she walked near Nevada Avenue and Victoria Drive Southwest.

The girl said she was walking home when the male approached her at Ohio Street and McMyler Avenue and said he didn’t want her to be alone. He followed her to Nevada, where he told her he wanted a hug, then held her arms down and grabbed her breasts and buttocks and forced her to kiss him.

The man was described as tall, thin, and dark-skinned black male, wearing a white T-shirt and baseball shorts.

Sobriety checkpoints

CANFIELD

Sobriety checkpoints conducted Friday night in Boardman and North Lima by the Mahoning County Operating a Vehicle while Impaired Task Force netted two OVI arrests.

A total of 562 vehicles passed through the two checkpoints, at 6809 and 11330 Market St.

In addition to the arrests, officers issued these citations: two for seat-belt violations, one for child restraint, one for no operator’s license, one for unsafe vehicle, one for assured clear distance ahead and one for a stop-sign violation.

They issued these summons: one for driving under suspension, two for drug abuse, one for open container and one for furnishing false information to an officer to avoid citation.

Officers also conducted 41 traffic stops during a saturation patrol in support of the checkpoints.

Man reports stabbing

WARREN

A Masury man, 32, reported being stabbed by another man in the Powerhouse bar, 999 Mahoning Ave. NW, about 2 a.m. Sunday.

The victim said the other man approached him about talking to his girlfriend and wanted to fight, so the victim said he fought. The other man bit him on the face and stabbed him with an unknown object on the right side of his chest and fled. The victim, who was treated at ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital, said he lost his keys and wallet.

Man reports robbery

YOUNGSTOWN

A 21-year-old North Side man told police he was robbed Friday evening while trying sell a pair of shoes on Facebook.

Reports said the man put a pair of shoes for sale on Facebook and Instagram. A person wanted to buy the shoes and agreed to meet him at a West Side apartment in the 2600 block of Tyrell Avenue about 10:10 p.m.

Reports said when the man arrived, he was led to an upstairs apartment where a man pulled a revolver and took $4, his cellphone and bank card.

Drugs, firearms found

HUBBARD

Federal authorities with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are investigating drugs and firearms found during a raid of a Hubbard home last week.

Hubbard city police and members of the Mahoning Valley Drug Task Force acted on a search warrant and raided a home at 44 Walnut St. on Wednesday.

Officials said they found 21 firearms, approximately one once of suspected cocaine and an unspecified amount of suspected hashish and marijuana. Officials declined to release further information, citing the ongoing nature of the investigation.