POLICE CALLS

POLICE CALLS

A summary of recent criminal activity in Girard, Liberty and Hubbard:

GIRARD

Oct. 19

Stolen property: A Cortland woman told police she bought a smartphone from a woman outside of a West Liberty Street business before learning the phone had been stolen.

Theft: A woman discovered a paycheck and a credit card missing while at a North State Street restaurant, and that the card had been used to make $427 worth of unauthorized charges.

Aggravated menacing: A North Ward Avenue woman alleged a relative threatened to kill her family after being angered that the utilities at his mother’s Youngstown residence had been turned off. The mother lives with the accuser, a report showed.

Oct. 20

Theft: Prescription medications, a drill and a toolkit were taken from a vehicle in the 600 block of North Ward Avenue.

Theft: Someone in the 500 block of West Liberty Street removed a car’s temporary tag.

Theft: A toolbox and a tool bag were removed from a van in the 900 block of Woodlawn Avenue, for a loss of $899.

Thefts: A small amount of change was taken after someone had entered two cars in the 500 block of Ward Avenue.

Criminal mischief: A woman in the 500 block of Hazel Street saw that someone had ransacked her vehicle, though it didn’t appear that anything was missing.

Theft: A $100 global-positioning-system unit was stolen from a car in the 100 block of Crumlin Avenue.

Harassment: A Church Hill Road woman said that a man has sent her a series of unwanted, derogatory text messages.

Theft: Someone stole an $800 crossbow and a GPS device from a vehicle in the 600 block of Hazel Street.

Theft: About $41 was taken from a car in the 500 block of Hazel Street.

Oct. 21

Auto theft: A 2005 Volkswagen Beetle was stolen in the 60 block of Townsend Avenue.

LIBERTY

Oct. 16

Assault: A Youngstown boy, 17, faced a simple-assault charge after several witnesses in the 200 block of Liberty Street told police they saw the teen twice kick another juvenile in the head after the victim had been knocked to the ground.

Drug paraphernalia: While answering a shoplifting call at Walmart, 200 Goldie Road, officers took 28-year-old Loni S. Capan into custody on charges of possession of drug paraphernalia and criminal tools. Capan, of East Liberty Street, Youngstown, had two pairs of wire cutters to remove security sensors from merchandise and a straw common in drug use, police said.

Menacing: A Niles man alleged another man had threatened him as the accuser dropped off his children at his former wife’s Montrose Avenue residence.

Oct. 17

Summons: While assisting township firefighters with a possible emergency in the 600 block of Northlawn Drive, officers handed 30-year-old Kevin M. Mann of Northlawn, Liberty, a summons charging him with misconduct at the scene of an emergency, a fourth-degree misdemeanor. Mann was apparently angered that firefighters had accidentally driven past his residence and he became belligerent with paramedics and authorities, a police report showed.

Unauthorized use of a vehicle: Dhalsin Tercero-Garcia, 24, of Hadley Road, Liberty, was charged with unauthorized use of a motor vehicle after a family member alleged he had taken her 2006 Volkswagen Jetta without permission.

Arrest: Police were dispatched to Walmart in response to a possible theft before taking into custody 39-year-old Michaelyn Purucker of Canfield Road, Youngstown, on Hubbard warrants.

Unauthorized use of a vehicle: A Ventura Drive woman said a relative took and refused to return her 2001 Ford Escape.

Oct. 18

Theft: A resident of a Colonial Drive long-term care center discovered $125 to $130 she had won was missing from her room.

Oct. 19

Arrest: While responding to a vehicular accident near Monticello Boulevard, officers charged 72-year-old Thomas J. Tubbs of Crestmont Drive, Girard, with operating a vehicle impaired. Tubbs’ blood-alcohol count was 0.210, more than double Ohio’s 0.08 legal limit, a report stated.

Oct. 20

Breaking and entering: A Goist Lane woman reported seeing someone rummaging through her car, and that four people fled on foot. Nothing appeared to have been stolen, however.

Trespassing: Police responded to a complaint about a man asking customers for money at a Belmont Avenue gas station, where they charged Eric J. Wallace, 26, of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, Youngstown, with criminal trespassing after saying Wallace had been told he was not allowed on the property. In a separate incident, Wallace also was charged with being at a Belmont Avenue pizzeria in violation of a criminal-trespassing warning.

HUBBARD

Oct. 17

Stolen property: While dealing with a suspicious person in a vehicle on Fairchild Drive, police charged a 17-year-old Newton Falls boy with receiving stolen property after saying the teen admitted having taken the 2014 Dodge truck without permission.

Oct. 18

Theft: A city official reported someone had tampered with an electric meter in the 300 block of Wheeler Street.

Oct. 19

Domestic violence: Douglas R. Matthews II, 27, of Alliance, was charged with the crime after his estranged wife, of Saul Drive, alleged an agitated Matthews had pushed or struck her, then forced his way into her home.

Oct. 20

Burglary: To a residence in the 900 block of West Liberty Street, from which at least three firearms were missing.