POLICE CALLS IN POLAND, BOARDMAN

POLICE CALLS

A summary of recent criminal activity in Poland and Boardman townships:

POLAND

June 23

Theft: A woman reported a $3,000 pair of diamond earrings, a gold chain and perfume stolen from her Dobbins Road apartment.

June 24

Theft: A Clingan Road woman noticed $47 missing from her vehicle.

June 25

Menacing: A Youngstown-Pittsburgh Road woman told police she was being stalked.

BOARDMAN

June 21

Arrest: Members of the U.S. Marshals Task Force in the 800 block of Youngstown-Poland Road took into custody 50-year-old Christopher H. Childs of Thunderbird Court, Poland, on a third-degree felony warrant charging fleeing and eluding police. Earlier this month, Childs led officers and, later, the Ohio State Highway Patrol, on a pursuit while driving a motorcycle after local authorities had tried to pull him over, a report said.

Felonious assault: A man told police one of two men who had arrived at his Huntington Drive apartment pulled a gun and, when he tried to disarm the man, was placed in a choke hold and struck several times in the head and face with the weapon. The victim was taken to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital.

Identity theft: A Meadowood Circle man found out someone without authorization had completed a loan application with his personal information.

Arrest: While answering a domestic-dispute call at an East Western Reserve Road home, authorities charged Jesse L. Canter of East Western Reserve, Poland, with obstructing official business. Canter, 59, attempted to enter the residence, which hindered officers’ efforts to check on the other person’s welfare, they alleged.

Theft: A woman reportedly stole $124 worth of clothing from Kohl’s, 383 Boardman-Poland Road.

Harassment: An Appleridge Circle woman said her former boyfriend has made continual unwanted contact with her via calls, text messages and social-media sites.

Identity fraud: A Youngstown man at a South Avenue bank discovered someone had deposited a fraudulent $1,968 government check into his account.

Bad check: An official with a Youngstown-Poland Road business told police that after having placed an ad to sell a tractor for $37,000, a man in Colorado sent him a $47,300 check, with instructions to withdraw $10,300 and deposit it in a separate account. The accuser did not cash the check, however, because of the suspicious circumstances under which he had received it.

Stolen property: Harold R. Wilson, Sr., 80, of Wolosyn Circle, Boardman, faced a misdemeanor receiving-stolen-property charge after police alleged Wilson had a $200 kayak that had been stolen from Dick’s Sporting Goods, 550 Boardman-Poland Road.

Citation: While answering a call about an unresponsive person at a Tiffany Boulevard motel, police issued a minor-misdemeanor citation charging 21-year-old Christopher A. Bigham of Waldorf, Md., with disorderly conduct while intoxicated in public.

Theft: Wayne R. Wagner of Tiffany Boulevard, Boardman, surrendered on a theft charge. The 52-year-old Wagner was accused of stealing a $20 bottle of chardonnay June 18 from a Get Go gas station, 6911 South Ave.

Weapon: After police responded to a report of several gunshots near Windsor and Stratford roads, a Stratford Road couple reported that bullets had struck their Stratford Road residence, though neither the man nor his wife was injured. Two 9 mm bullet casings were found, a report said.

June 22

Attempted fraud: A worker with a U.S. Route 224 car wash reported a caller claiming to represent Ohio Edison Co. said the business must pay $1,812 it owes and send the check to Columbus, or have the power disconnected. The worker contacted the utility’s customer-service department and learned it was a scam, a report showed.

Theft: A man reportedly stole merchandise that included a T-shirt from Walmart, 1300 Doral Drive.

Theft: A Bechtelsville, Pa., man staying at a Tiffany Boulevard motel discovered a 14-foot trailer and numerous tools missing.

June 23

Domestic violence: Jose L. Reyes Jr., 37, of Sylvia Lane, Boardman, was charged with the crime after his girlfriend alleged an intoxicated Reyes had struck the back of her head during an argument.

Theft: Meta L. Little, 37, of Aberdeen Avenue, Youngstown, and 53-year-old Erika D. Tremble of Logan Gate Road, Liberty Township, were charged with stealing about $138 worth of groceries from Marc’s, 7121 Tiffany Blvd.

Robbery: Jessica L. Phillips, 31, of Market Street, Youngstown, faced charges of robbery, possession of criminal tools and receiving stolen property after cologne and perfume were stolen from Macy’s in Southern Park Mall. Phillips, who had a set of brass knuckles in her purse, also had two men’s hats that had been removed from another mall store, authorities alleged.

Theft: Youngstown police handed 22-year-old Melinda J. Schreffler to Boardman authorities. The Canton woman was charged in a June 18 shoplifting situation in which $71.50 worth of merchandise, including undershirts, was stolen from Family Dollar, 4030 Market St.

Criminal damaging: A Shields Road woman told officers someone used an instrument to cut and damage a couch in a nearby carport. Damage was estimated at $1,700.

Theft by deception: The owner of a Market Street window-cleaning company told authorities he suspected someone had performed work on behalf of the company at three Warren businesses and may have billed them using phony invoices.

Theft: A woman reported four flower pots stolen from her residence in the 4500 block of South Avenue.

June 24

Theft: An official with a Southern Park Mall restaurant discovered a $2,245 deposit missing.

Theft: A South Cadillac Drive man told authorities he had paid a contractor $500 to repair his chimney, but that the work was never finished.

Theft: A township man noticed a $420 cellphone missing from his locker at a Route 224 fitness center.

Identity fraud: A Nevada Avenue woman checked her debit/credit-card account and found three unauthorized charges totaling $331 had been made from it at a Walmart store in the Cleveland area.

Theft: A man in his late 30s reportedly stole two men’s T-shirts and a pack of men’s socks from Kohl’s, 383 Boardman-Poland Road.

Counterfeit: A man used a phony $50 bill to buy $20 worth of gasoline from a Shell True North station, 950 Boardman-Poland Road.

Theft: A Carbon Cliff, Ill., woman discovered $250 had been removed from her wallet while staying at a South Avenue motel.

June 25

Theft: A Youngstown woman told officers another woman took her $800 cellphone from the accuser’s Tod Avenue apartment.

Vandalism: Someone damaged an air-conditioning unit at the rear of a business in the 1200 block of Boardman-Canfield Road, rendering the device inoperable.

Theft: An Alliance man reported his wallet missing after having patronized a Boardman-Canfield Road fast-food restaurant.

June 26

Arrest: A traffic stop near Glenwood Avenue resulted in a citation charging John A. Jenkins of Jacobs Road, Youngstown, with operating a vehicle impaired. The 19-year-old Jenkins’ blood-alcohol count was 0.171, more than double Ohio’s 0.08 legal intoxication limit, a report showed.

Assaults: A witness reported a man and a woman had assaulted two women at a Doral Drive big-box store.

Stolen property: Police noticed a suspicious person carrying merchandise and hurrying to his vehicle at Southern Park Mall before charging 43-year-old Robert W. Stanko with one misdemeanor count of receiving stolen property. Stanko, of North Whitney Avenue, Youngstown, admitted having taken six shirts and a pair of shorts from Sears in the mall, a report stated.

Domestic violence: Jaywan A. Crimley, 22, who listed addresses on Applecrest Court in Boardman and East Judson Avenue in Youngstown, was arrested on a warrant related to an April 16 situation in which an Applecrest Court woman alleged Crimley had twice choked her and struck the accuser multiple times during an argument about their relationship.

Assault: A woman alleged a man had hit one of her children in the face and swatted him with a glove, striking the child’s eye, in an effort to discipline him shortly before a custody exchange at a South Avenue big-box store. Police found a slight red mark on the victim, though no charges had been filed at the time of the report.

June 27

Attempted theft: Someone entered two cars on Crestline Place, though it didn’t appear anything had been removed.