Woman faces OVI citation after crash

Woman faces OVI citation after crash

YOUNGSTOWN

City police cited an Austintown woman with operating a vehicle impaired Thursday morning after reports said she flipped over a car she was driving in the 400 block of Idora Avenue on the South Side.

Reports said police called to the scene about 1 a.m. found Mesean E. Fletcher, 43, of Lexington Place, who was standing with a group of people bleeding heavily from a cut on her head.

Reports said Fletcher told paramedics she had “five or six drinks” earlier in the evening. She submitted to a blood test at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital and was cited with OVI there.

Police: Man tried to swallow crack rock

YOUNGSTOWN

Police said they arrested a Regent Street man Wednesday afternoon who purportedly tried to swallow a rock of crack cocaine after a traffic stop.

Officers pulled over a car driven by Deometric Brown, 54, about 3:40 p.m. at Delason and Oak Hill avenues on the South Side for an improper turn.

Reports said when officers were talking to Brown, it appeared he had something in his mouth. He told police it was a rock of crack cocaine. He then spit it out, reports said.

Brown is charged with possession of cocaine and driving under suspension and was taken to the Mahoning County jail.

Judge sentences man after drug charges

WARREN

Judge Ronald Rice of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court sentenced Rafael L. Patterson, 26, of Laurelwood Drive and Robert Lane, to five years’ probation and ordered him to pay a $22,500 fine Thursday after Patterson pleaded guilty earlier to nine drug-trafficking and possession charges.

Patterson also forfeited $17,434 in cash that was in his possession when police raided his Robert Lane home.

Police said an investigation after the April 10, 2015, death of Megan Fitzgerald, 24, of Champion showed Maurice Bryant, 28, of Shady Lane in Howland, gave the fatal dose of drugs to Fitzgerald, and Patterson sold drugs to Bryant.

Bryant was sentenced to three years in prison earlier for his role in Fitzgerald’s death.

Greene Twp. is put on ‘unauditable’ list

GREENE

Incomplete financial records prompted state Auditor Dave Yost to place Greene Township in Trumbull County on the “unauditable” list.

During the course of the regular financial audit of Greene Township for the period Jan. 1, 2014, through Dec. 31, 2015, public accounting firm Perry & Associates noted the incomplete financial records.

As a result, the state auditor office determined that the condition of the township’s financial records was not adequate to complete the audit.

In a letter to the township, the state auditor provided a list of records required to complete the audit.

Within 90 days of the date of the letter, the township must revise its financial records and provide the necessary data.

Firefighters promoted

YOUNGSTOWN

Three city firefighters were promoted Thursday during a short ceremony at Station 1 on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

John Carbon was promoted to captain. Promoted to lieutenant were Tom Gibbs and Jeff Kaschak. Mayor John A. McNally administered the oath to all three.

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