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Counterfeit bills

AUSTINTOWN

Police are looking for suspects accused of spending counterfeit bills at two Walmarts in the area Wednesday.

A man and two women purchased items from the Liberty Walmart at 200 Goldie Road using counterfeit bills, police said. They returned those items to the Austintown Walmart at 6001 Mahoning Ave., where they spent six more counterfeit $100 bills along with real currency. The suspects then took those items to the Boardman Walmart at 1300 Doral Drive. Police did not know whether they used counterfeit bills there. The suspects were seen driving a small green SUV.

Boardman man arrested in shootout

YOUNGSTOWN

One of two men wanted after a shootout between neighbors Tuesday prompted a SWAT team assembly on the South Side was arrested Thursday.

Teon Stennis, 24, of Boardman, was taken into custody at about 1:30 p.m. on charges of felonious assault, being a felon in possession of a firearm, discharging a firearm at or into a habitation and two traffic warrants from 2016.

Police responded at about 4 p.m. Tuesday to East Auburndale after vice squad officers on patrol heard several gunshots and thought two gunmen may be in a home there.

A SWAT team was called to search the home but could not find the two men they were looking for.

Reports said neighbors across the street were arguing and were shooting at each other. About 15 shell casings were recovered in the street. The incident is still under investigation, police said.

Human trafficking

SHARON, PA.

A man is facing several charges after police said he’s been selling the woman he’s been dating for drug money.

Officers arrested Billy Jones, 47, after searching his home at 432 Malleable St. on Friday according to 21 WFMJ-TV, The Vindicator’s broadcast partner.

According to a criminal complaint, the 29-year-old woman who lives with Jones told an investigator she started using crack cocaine shortly after she began dating Jones two years ago.

Police charged him with strangulation, trafficking in individuals and involuntary servitude.

Jones is in the Mercer County Jail on a $100,000 bond.

Unattended child

WARREN

Michael P. Roueche, 24, of Ellsworth Bailey Road in Lords-town pleaded not guilty Friday in Warren Municipal Court to child endangering after a small child was found walking in the 600 block of Trumbull Avenue Southeast unattended.

Police received a phone call from a neighbor about the child at 9:04 a.m. Thursday. Roueche is free on bond.

Crory Road closing

CANFIELD

Crory Road at U.S. Route 224 will be closed Monday through Friday for a culvert replacement, the Ohio Department of Transportation has announced. The detour will be Leffingwell Road to Palmyra Road to U.S. Route 224.

Free parenting series

YOUNGSTOWN

Parents of children age 3–8 are invited to join Alta Behavioral Healthcare professionals for a group series on positive ways to parent their children. Free weekly classes are offered as part of Alta’s Incredible Years Early Childhood Parent Group, which is supported by the Mahoning County Mental Health and Recovery Board and Whole Child Matters Grant.

Classes run from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays, June 13 through Aug. 1, at Alta Behavioral Healthcare, 711 Belmont Ave.

In the course, participants will learn why play is more than just having fun, how praise and rewards improve behavior, tips on teaching children to listen, ways to decrease annoying behaviors, discipline ideas and promoting school readiness.

Child-sitting is available, and a light supper will be provided for families and children.

To register, contact the Alta Care Group, 330-793-2487.