Saturday, May 14, 2016
POLICE CALLS
A summary of recent criminal activity in Girard and Hubbard:
GIRARD
May 6
Burglary: To a residence in the 200 block of Verona Avenue. Stolen were a 32-inch TV, an Xbox game system and cords for various electronics items.
Theft: A woman noticed $330 and an iPad device missing from her home in the 200 block of East Broadway Avenue.
May 7
Criminal damaging: Someone in the 40 block of Hancock Street entered two vehicles and broke a passenger-side window to one of the cars.
Theft: A Hancock Street man discovered a trailer hitch and a pocket knife missing from his home.
May 8
Arrest: Police responded to a report of someone passed out in a vehicle near U.S. Route 422 and an Interstate 80 off-ramp before charging 31-year-old Rusty W. Pratt of Youngstown-Hubbard Road, Hubbard, with operating a vehicle impaired.
Assault: A man alleged another man pushed him off his bicycle, punched the accuser’s face and knocked him to the ground while on North Davis Street.
Arrest: While answering a call about a dog locked in a vehicle in the 900 block of Patricia Drive, authorities took into custody Thomas A. Francis of Patricia Drive, Girard. The 24-year-old Francis was wanted on a Trumbull County 911 center warrant charging larceny.
Criminal damaging: An Olive Street woman returned home to discover her front screen door had been broken.
May 9
Harassment: An Ohio Avenue man said a former friend had sent him text messages containing implied threats.
Menacing: Police responded to a two-car accident near Church Hill Road, where a couple alleged a man with whom they have ongoing problems had intentionally rear-ended them.
Theft by deception: A Shannon Road man reported a woman with whom he has an online relationship has stolen at least $12,000 from him over a two-year period.
May 10
Menacing: Two North Highland Avenue residents reported a neighbor had threatened them and, in an effort to harass the accusers, intentionally played his stereo too loudly.
Trespassing: Police charged 19-year-old Travis A. Moon of Belmont Avenue, and 34-year-old Michael R. Wells of Circle Street with criminal trespassing after receiving information about a vehicle stuck on railroad tracks and someone possibly lost in a wooded area nearby. The two Niles men were on private property off Route 422, a report said.
HUBBARD
May 3
Identity fraud: A Henry Street man reported a caller had tricked him into allowing access to his computer and, in so doing, claimed the victim had viruses and needed to buy various products from Walmart to correct the problem.
May 4
Theft of services: Officers responded to a complaint that someone had left a pile of garbage next to a trash bin that belongs to Pizza Joe’s, 135 Youngstown-Hubbard Road.
Theft: David G. Airgood, 20, of Hager Street, Hubbard, faced theft and criminal-trespassing charges after an officer reported having witnessed Airgood open a car’s passenger-side door, then remove an empty pack of cigarettes.
Menacing: A worker for a North Main Street auto-service business told police a 39-year-old Hubbard man threatened to beat him up, apparently in a dispute regarding an unpaid phone bill.
May 6
Possible theft: A Fairchild Drive man reported a .22-caliber pre-World War II revolver lost or stolen.
Criminal mischief: Someone in the 300 block of Hall Avenue tossed eggs at and struck two vehicles.
May 7
Menacing: Officers charged David T. Hill, 36, of Chestnut Ridge Road, Hubbard, with menacing after a Cortland man alleged Hill had threatened him at a Hubbard golf course. Earlier, the accuser had hired Hill to work on his home but fired him because of poor workmanship, a report showed.
May 8
Arrest: After police reported having seen a man vomiting from a car on North Main Street, they charged 25-year-old Peter A. Tedde III of White Oak Drive, Hubbard, with operating a vehicle impaired.
Recovered property: A police officer found a wallet in a mail slot at the Hubbard Township Administration building, 233 School St.
Theft of services: An employee with a business in the 100 block of Youngstown-Hubbard Road complained that residents of a nearby apartment complex have been dumping garbage in the business’s trash bin.