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Fraud sentencing

BOARDMAN

A Boardman woman, Andrea Trgovich, 50, was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court in Akron to five years’ probation for her part in a scheme that collected tens of thousands of dollars from investors. The judge also ordered that Trgovich’s location be monitored for six months and that she make restitution in the amount of $95,000. After she pleaded guilty to one count of securities fraud, six counts of bank fraud were dropped as part of her plea agreement, reported 21 WFMJ-TV, The Vindicator’s broadcast partner. Prosecutors say Trgovich established Wellness Integrated Network in 2008 to develop and market a mobile, web-based software application that would enable users to manage diet, weight, and physical activities; but investigators say she collected $578,869 from them, while no product was ever developed.

Victim identified

LIBERTY

Police have identified a woman found dead in a township pond after an apparent accident early Wednesday as Loraine Lynn, 60, of Ravenna. She was found face down in the pond at a Shannon Road residence. Police believe she was cutting grass with a tractor when she fell into the pond. A Trumbull County coroner will perform an autopsy to determine the cause of death.

Relatives threatened

WARREN

Police arrested a Linda Drive Northwest man Wednesday, charging him with discharging a firearm in city limits and two counts of aggravating menacing after his mother told them he was threatening her and his brother during a fight at his mother’s Parkman Road Southwest home. Officers were called to the home at about 5:15 p.m., where the mother said her son, Kenyon McGriff, 21, was fighting with her other son over a property dispute, threatened to kill both of them and fired three rounds in the air from a semiautomatic handgun. Police found three shell casings in front of the house. McGriff was found walking in the 1100 block of Oak Street Southwest and taken into custody, reports said.

OVI, failure to control

CANFIELD

Timothy Vinopal, 58, of Leffingwell Road, will appear in Mahoning County Area Court here Aug. 22 on a charge of driving while intoxicated. He pleaded not guilty to charges of operating a vehicle impaired and failure to control at his arraignment Tuesday. Police said Vinopal ran a stoplight, drove his vehicle through a yard, a chain-link fence and into the side of a parked vehicle Sunday afternoon. He traveled northbound through the state Route 446 and West Main Street intersection and veered off the road into the yard. Witnesses told police Vinopal was swerving over shoulder and double yellow lines multiple times. Police said he was unable to complete field-sobriety tests.

2 face theft charges

BOARDMAN

Two people face charges after police said they tried to steal more than $1,700 worth of merchandise Wednesday from the Doral Drive Walmart by taking $1 price tags off of items in the store and putting them on more expensive items they were trying to steal. Brandon Turjonis, 29, and Arcadia Aguilar, 26, both of New Springfield, are charged with theft. A store employee told police she observed the couple, who had children ages 3 and 1 with them, walking through the store for more than two hours. Police said the couple self-scanned 43 items, then were stopped as they were leaving the store.

Robbery arrests

BOARDMAN

U.S. Marshals arrested Ronald Wolfe, 52, of Shadyside Drive Wednesday on a robbery warrant related to an incident reported at Rulli Bros. market June 23. An employee told police he saw a man concealing several produce items while he left the store. When the employee asked to see a receipt, the man continued to walk toward his vehicle, then grabbed a sheathed knife and brandished it at the employee, police said. U.S. marshals arrested Marcus Pearson, 29, of Youngstown Thuirsday in a robbery reported at Marshall’s July 28. A store employee reported Pearson punched the employee in the chest while trying to flee with stolen merchandise.

Woman arrested

BOARDMAN

A woman who police said overdosed in a vacant apartment earlier this week was arrested Wednesday on warrants related to other incidents. Officers were called Tuesday afternoon to Cook Avenue for a woman later identified as Nichole McMurray, 21, who was not breathing. Emergency medical responders revived her with Narcan. After she was released from the hospital Wednesday, police arrested her on warrants from Boardman and the Trumbull County Sheriff’s office alleging failure to appear in court and theft.