POLICE CALLS

POLICE CALLS

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

POLAND

May 10

Criminal mischief: A mailbox was damaged at a residence in the 5300 block of New Castle Road.

May 15

Arrest: A traffic stop at U.S. Route 224 and Diana Drive led to the arrest of 36-year-old Neil A. Kolm of White House Lane, Boardman, on one count of operating a vehicle impaired and two of child endangering. Two children, 9 and 14, also were in the vehicle, a report showed.

BOARDMAN

May 11

Arrest: A 14-year-old township boy faced a misdemeanor charge of inducing panic when, police alleged, an investigation revealed the teen had threatened to go on a shooting spree at Glenwood Middle School, 7635 Glenwood Ave.

Domestic violence: Authorities took into custody 41-year-old Thomas J. Woods at his Afton Avenue home on domestic-violence and telephone-harassment charges after a Moyer Avenue woman alleged the Boardman man had called and threatened to kill her.

Theft of services: An electric meter was removed from the outside of a residence in the 4800 block of Brookwood Road, which disrupted service to the upstairs portion.

Domestic violence: A Boardman boy, 15, was charged with the crime after his father alleged the teen had scratched and struck his head during an altercation regarding schoolwork.

Theft: Angelea R. Kilgore, 25, of Russell Avenue, Youngstown, was charged with stealing three pairs of shorts and three boys shirts from Kohl’s, 383 Boardman-Poland Road.

Assault: A South Schenley Avenue woman alleged a neighbor had shut her door in the accuser’s face, striking her right hand, after the victim had asked the neighbor and her boyfriend to keep the noise down.

Identity theft: An employee with a Market Street business discovered four fraudulent charges to the company’s payroll that totaled $32,775, possibly after someone had hacked into the business’s computer system.

Domestic violence: Terry D. Marks, 52, of Erskine Avenue, Boardman, faced a felony domestic-violence charge after a woman alleged an intoxicated Marks had pushed her several times into a wall, then spit in her face and hair. The charge was elevated to a third-degree felony because of prior convictions, a report stated.

May 12

Arrest: Authorities answered a call regarding someone going door to door selling magazine subscriptions in the 6300 block of South Avenue before picking up 35-year-old Matthew J. Sharp of Oak Street, Leetonia. Sharp was wanted on a Columbiana County warrant accusing him of failing to appear in court on a theft charge.

Harassment/attempted theft: A Market Street woman told police someone has continually called claiming to represent local law-enforcement agencies and asking for a $15 donation in an effort to scam her.

Menacing/criminal damaging: Three Cook Avenue residents reported having been threatened; one woman told police a man also damaged her car.

Assault: A 16-year-old Struthers boy reported that while in a vehicle in the 400 block of McClurg Road, a man came up to the teen and struck his face, then sped away.

Arrest: Gary E. Hartzell of West Sunbury, Pa., was taken into custody during a traffic stop in the 1300 block of Doral Drive. The 49-year-old Hartzell was wanted on a felony warrant from Butler County, Pa., charging failure to appear in court.

Criminal damaging: A woman reported two tires were slashed on her mother’s vehicle and that her desktop computer was damaged at her Euclid Boulevard home.

Felonious assault: Officers responded to a fight in the Boardman Plaza parking lot, where a man reported another man struck his face with a wooden club after what appeared to have been an argument between the two motorists.

Arrest: Shawn McInnis, 43, was charged with operating a vehicle impaired after having been pulled over near Glenwood Avenue. McInnis, of Sierra Madre Trail, Boardman, had a 0.090 blood-alcohol count, slightly higher than Ohio’s 0.08 legal intoxication limit, a report said.

Identity theft: A West Boulevard man told authorities a caller claimed he owed the Internal Revenue Service $2,300 and would face legal action if he failed to pay the sum. The caller also instructed the victim to withdraw money to buy gift cards, then read the numbers from their security bars.

Theft: A woman noticed her purse missing while at a Market Street restaurant.

Identity theft: A Woodrow Avenue man found several unauthorized charges on his debit card that totaled about $800.

Arrest: A traffic stop in the 600 block of East Midlothian Boulevard led to the arrest of 18-year-old Carlos E. Padilla of Ninth Street, Struthers, on a charge of operating a vehicle impaired.

May 13

Assault: A Meadowbrook Avenue woman alleged two boys had tackled, punched and held down her 15-year-old daughter at a nearby playground.

Criminal damaging: Someone in the 7400 block of Huntington Drive broke a sliding-glass window pane and tore a sign off a decoration.

Robbery: Lisa M. Frankino, 49, of North Carnegie Avenue, Niles, was charged with robbery after a $29 women’s top was stolen from Buckle, a clothing store in Southern Park Mall. A store manager alleged Frankino also had threatened to kill her before fleeing.

Identity fraud: An employee with a Boardman credit union discovered a man without authorization had made two $500 withdrawals from an account that belonged to a person who’s deceased.

Burglary: To a residence in the 3900 block of South Schenley Avenue via a rear window. Two flat-screen TVs and a laptop computer were removed.

Criminal damaging: Yvette L. Rogers of Everett Avenue, Youngstown, surrendered on a criminal-damaging charge related to a May 6 incident in which an official with a cleaning company alleged that during a verbal altercation and while on duty at a Market Street car dealership, the 45-year-old Rogers, who also works for the cleaning service, punctured two of his car’s tires.

May 14

Theft: David M. Verdinek, 34, of East Rockwell Road, Youngstown, was charged after an $87 hardware tool was stolen from Walmart, 1300 Doral Drive.

Arrest: Police responded to a disabled vehicle in the 800 block of East Midlothian Boulevard, where they took 38-year-old Dion L. Williams into custody. Williams, of Parkman Road Northwest, Warren, was wanted on a warrant charging failure to appear in court.

Theft: Judith G. Douglas, 40, of Oakwood Avenue, Youngstown, was charged in the theft of several bottles of body wash valued at $54 from Marc’s, 7121 Tiffany Blvd.

Theft: Tina S. Davis of Powersway Boulevard, Youngstown, was charged, accused of having stolen several bags of candy from Marc’s.

Robbery: An Aravesta Avenue man told police that days earlier, a gunman about age 40 weighing 190 pounds got out of a car and robbed him of $200 and a set of keys before returning to his vehicle and driving toward Shields Road.

Theft: A woman reportedly fled from Macy’s in Southern Park Mall after having stolen four articles of clothing valued at $175.

Unauthorized use of a vehicle: An employee with a Market Street banquet center alleged a man with whom she had lived took her 2003 Dodge Neon shortly after she arrived for work.

May 15

Theft: A group of women reportedly stole $676 worth of apparel from Babies “R” Us, The Baby Super Store, 1240 Doral Drive.

Drugs: A traffic stop near South Avenue resulted in the arrests of 21-year-old Abby K. Martinko of Partridge Park Drive, Poland, on a drug-abuse charge, and 29-year-old Donald F. Bucci II of Pinehill Drive, Poland, on a bench warrant from Youngstown Municipal Court. A folded piece of plastic wrap containing two white painkillers was found, police alleged.

Theft: A man reportedly stole socks, a T-shirt and a pack of shirts from Dollar General, 859 E. Midlothian Blvd.

Drugs: After receiving information about a possibly reckless driver near Shields Road, authorities charged 32-year-old Kevin R. Anderson of Roslyn Drive, Youngstown, with one felony count each of drug abuse, obstructing official business, tampering with evidence and failure to comply with police. Anderson led authorities on a vehicular pursuit for several miles, and before apprehending him in Boardman, police saw him smoking crack cocaine and trying to get rid of a suspected crack pipe, a report stated. Anderson also faced a misdemeanor charge of possession of drug paraphernalia.

Theft: Vanessa A. Rivera, 28, of Pasadena Avenue, Youngstown, was charged with taking from Walmart an undergarment and a cassette adaptor for an MP3 player.

Theft: Tamika T. Martin, 33, and Shanell M. Robinson, 37, were charged with theft. The two East Cleveland women were accused of stealing 106 undergarments worth a total of $1,004 from Victoria’s Secret in Southern Park Mall.