Driver surrenders

Driver surrenders

NORTH JACKSON

Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers say a man suspected of being involved in a hit-skip accident involving a Milton police cruiser surrendered to authorities.

According to 21 WFMJ-TV, The Vindicator’s broadcast partner, Jeffrey Yaratch, 25, of North Jackson surrendered Monday. He is charged with failing to keep an assured clear distance and leaving the scene of an accident.

The TV station reported the accident happened shortly before 9 p.m. Sunday on Mahoning Avenue, just east of Bailey Road in Jackson Township.

Investigators say a Milton police car driven by Patrolman Samuel A. Getz Jr. was traveling west when the vehicle was struck from behind by a car driven by Yaratch.

The police car swerved and struck another vehicle in the left rear tire. Police say Yaratch fled from the scene on foot.

Lloyd Courtney, 57, of Sebring, who drove the vehicle hit by the police car, was not injured.

Getz was treated for minor injuries.

Facing multiple charges

SHARON, PA.

A hearing is scheduled before a Mercer County magistrate next week for a Hermitage man accused of fleeing from Sharon police and backing up into one of their cruisers.

According to The Vindicator’s broadcast partner, 21 WFMJ-TV, an off-duty Sharon officer says he spotted John Jason Gruitza, 40, passed out behind the driver’s seat of a vehicle in the area of Kimberly Road and Daugherty Avenue on Thursday afternoon. Police say that when the off-duty officer identified himself, Gruitza drove away.

When a marked patrol vehicle attempted to stop Gruitza, he pulled over near Woodbine Drive and Todd Avenue in Hermitage.

As that officer got out of his vehicle, Gruitza pulled away and drove south on Todd Avenue. Gruitza then pulled into a driveway of a home in the 200 block of Todd Avenue and the patrol vehicle pulled behind his vehicle.

As the officer was leaving his vehicle, Gruitza put his vehicle in reverse striking the patrol vehicle.

Gruitza is charged with driving under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance, fleeing or attempting to elude police, limitations on backing and public drunkenness.

North Side stabbing

YOUNGSTOWN

A man was stabbed on the city’s North Side on Monday night.

According to 21 WFMJ-TV, The Vindicator’s broadcast partner, police were called to a home on Ohio Avenue about 8:30 p.m. Monday for a man stabbed in his side.

He was taken to a hospital for treatment, and there was no word on the victim’s name or condition Monday night.

Youngstown authorities called the wound superficial Monday night.