State officials to visit

State officials to visit

AUSTINTOWN

Representatives of the Ohio Secretary of State’s Office will be at the Austintown library branch, 600 S. Raccoon Road, from 2 to 4 p.m. Thursday.

The office’s staff will have voter-registration forms and election information available an will as answer questions and distribute materials to those interested in learning about other functions of the office, including its business services division.

Man arrested

YOUNGSTOWN

Reports said a Girard man was charged late Monday with theft from a motor vehicle after he was caught stealing items from a car that was in a city police officer’s driveway.

Reports said the officer was leaving his North Side home about 9:55 p.m. for duty on the midnight shift when he saw Ryan Pezzuto, 27, walking on his street, then quickly disappear.

Reports said when the officer looked again, he saw Pezzuto inside a car in his driveway. The officer turned around and ordered Pezutto out of his car at gunpoint, reports said.

Pezzuto was taken to the Mahoning County jail and later released on summons and a court date.

Burglary probed

BOARDMAN

Township police are investigating a burglary and theft reported by a man who lives on Lynn Mar Avenue.

The victim called police Monday afternoon after discovering a check was cashed for $360 from his bank account without his knowledge. He also found about 20 prescription hydrocodone pills missing from his home.

Unauditable list

WARREN

Incomplete financial records and bank reconciliations prompted Ohio Auditor Dave Yost to place the Newton Falls Joint Fire District on the “unauditable list,” Yost said in a news release.

During the course of the regular financial audit for the district for Jan. 1, 2014, through Dec. 31, 2015, Yost’s office determined that the condition of the district’s records was not adequate to complete the audit. Additional bank statements and reconciliations are required, a letter to the district said.

Facing charges

WARREN

Nicole M. McCarthy, 32, and Anthony W. Reighard, 31, both of Garrettsville, were charged with child endangering and other offenses Monday morning after being treated for a possible drug overdose.

Police said they saw Reighard drooling and unresponsive in a car in the parking lot of Walgreens on South Street at 10:55 a.m. An ambulance arrived and revived him with the overdose-reversal drug Narcan. They found a used hypodermic needle in the car.

They also were informed that a woman inside the store might have something wrong and found McCarthy and her son, 18 months, in the store. Her eyelids were twitching, and she wasn’t responding, so police had ambulance personnel treat her also.

They were taken to different Warren hospitals and later taken to jail.

McCarthy pleaded not guilty to child endangering Tuesday in Warren Municipal Court. Reighard pleaded not guilty to child endangering, possession of drug-abuse instruments and possession of drug paraphernalia.

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