Vehicle break-ins

Vehicle break-ins

BOARDMAN

Township police responded to numerous reports of vehicle break-ins Tuesday, according to police reports.

Police responded to Pierce Drive about 5 a.m. in reference to “two suspicious males approaching vehicles,” then received a call about a stolen vehicle on Hopkins Road.

A man told police he had left his car idling in the driveway, then returned to find it missing.

Police reported seeing footprints, leading them to Shelby Road, where they found other vehicles that appeared to have been rummaged through.

Separately Tuesday, a Truesdale Road resident reported someone had entered her unlocked vehicle in the driveway and stolen items from her purse, and a Lockwood Boulevard resident reported someone had stolen change from his car while it was parked in the driveway overnight.

Possible plea change

YOUNGSTOWN

The woman charged in a crash that resulted in the death of a Youngstown firefighter appears ready to change her plea of not guilty.

Josephine Palmer, 48, of Northfield appeared Wednesday in Ashtabula Municipal Court for a pretrial, and court records show a change-of-plea hearing scheduled for Feb. 16.

Palmer faces charges of vehicular homicide and failure to yield for a stop sign related to an October crash in Saybrook Township that killed Youngstown Fire Department battalion chief Ronald Russo.

Russo and his brother rode motorcycles up state Route 45 and collided with a van driven by Palmer. He died from injuries suffered in the crash.

Break floods houses

YOUNGSTOWN

About a half-dozen houses on the city’s West Side were flooded when a water main line broke.

The break occurred early Wednesday on Wendover Circle at the intersection of Kirk Road, said Eugene Leson Jr., the city water department’s chief engineer.

The break ended up backing up water into the basements of houses at that location.

Angels sets a record

CANFIELD

Representatives from Guinness World Records visited Angels for Animals, 4750 West South Range Road, and determined the shelter’s cat-scratching tree is the tallest in the world.

“They’ve pretty much guaranteed us we’ll be in the book,” said shelter co-founder Diane Less.

Less and volunteer Jason Cooke determined the cat tree’s height of 19 feet 51/2 inches on Sept. 26. Angels’ tree is more than 2 feet taller than the current world record holder.

Man to be sentenced

WARREN

Charles C. Dellapenna III, 48, one of three co-defendants in a June 18, 2016, gunfight outside of the Shorty’s Place tavern on Highland Avenue in Warren Township, will be sentenced at 11 a.m. today in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court.

The fight involved Dellapenna and two other members of the motorcycle club Forever Two Wheelz and members of the Brothers Regime motorcycle club.

Two members of the Brothers Regime were killed, and two were injured.

Dellapenna’s co-defendants got 10 and eight years in prison.

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