Bond set in case

Bond set in case

WARREN

Bond of $100,000 was set Monday for Ohio State Penitentiary inmate Joel C. White, 31, and $50,000 last week for Jacklyn E. Cropper, 39, of Canton in identical corruption and drug charges.

Both of their cases are being handled by Judge Peter Kontos of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court.

Their indictment charges them with engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, illegally conveying the drug Suboxone onto a government facility, Suboxone trafficking, aggravated Oxycodone trafficking, illegal processing of drug documents and theft of Suboxone.

The charges date from January 2015 to November 2015. Gina Buccino Arnaut, assistant county prosecutor, is prosecuting the case.

Still under review

BROOKFIELD

Geologists who handle injection-well permit applications are still reviewing the application by Highland Field Services of Pittsburgh for two wells in the township.

Steve Irwin, spokesman for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, said the agency also is reviewing the public comments provided and has not made a decision.

Brookfield Township trustees and Trumbull County commissioners both wrote to ODNR objecting to the wells because of groundwater contamination issues, truck traffic and abandoned coal mines.

The wells are proposed for near the Wyngate Manor manufactured home community off state Route 7.

A Merwin-Chase Road resident also obtained signatures on a petition asking the wells not be allowed.

Robbery reported

WARREN

A city man, 23, reported being knocked unconscious from behind and robbed while standing near his vehicle and smoking a cigarette in the parking lot of the Powerhouse Bar, 999 Mahoning Ave. NW, at 2 a.m. Saturday.

The man said he could not remember anything about the incident, but his jaw was hurting him. He went to ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital for treatment. He said $200 was taken from him.

Commission position available in Hubbard

HUBBARD

The city is looking to fill a vacant, unpaid position on the civil service commission. Applicants should contact the mayor’s office at 330-534-3090.

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WARREN

Police are searching for two men who used a sledgehammer to break into Gasland Food Mart on North Park Avenue early Monday, The Vindicator’s broadcast partner, 21 WFMJ-TV reports. Officers believe the two men stole an ATM and were driving a red Ford Escape.

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NILES

A city man spent a week in jail and was fined $200 after a scuffle over a gun landed his girlfriend in the hospital.

Edward Culler, 18, was originally charged with felonious assault a week ago after he told police he had been wrestling with his girlfriend over a gun at their apartment on Youngstown-Warren Road, according to 21 WFMJ-TV, The Vindicator’s broadcast partner.

Police were called to the apartment to investigate a report of domestic violence. The woman was treated for a gunshot wound at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital. In Niles Municipal Court on Monday, Culler pleaded no contest to a reduced charge of negligent assault. He was found guilty and sentenced to the week he had already spent in jail.