OVI arrests in 2016

OVI arrests in 2016

CANFIELD

More than 550 impaired drivers were arrested by Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers operating from the Canfield post last year.

The patrol reported that troopers across Ohio have caught more than 24,000 impaired drivers in the last five years.

Last year, there were more than 14,400 OVI- related crashes in Ohio, which resulted in 423 fatalities and 8,785 injuries. In nearly 60 percent of OVI-related crashes, drivers were found to be speeding. More than half of drivers found to be at fault in crashes were in their 20s and 30s, and 72 percent were male.

Area power outages

More than 4,200 Ohio Edison customers were without power Tuesday night, according to FirstEnergy’s outage map. The outage was most prevalent in the city of Campbell and the surrounding Youngstown East Side neighborhoods, with additional but less widespread power loss in Poland, Coitsville, Lowellville and Struthers. Ohio Edison restored power to the majority of its customers by 8 p.m.

By 8:30 p.m., only 219 customers were still without power. Mark Durbin, an Ohio Edison representative, said a truck collided with a utility pole near Wilson Avenue and Coitsville Road, which caused the outage.

Remove decorations

CANFIELD

The city requests all Christmas decorations be retrieved from Canfield cemeteries by March 20. Any decorations left after that date will be removed.

Officers re-elected

YOUNGSTOWN

The Mahoning County Board of Elections re-elected county Republican Party Chairman Mark Munroe as its chairman and county Democratic Chairman David Betras as its vice chairman. Also, the board reappointed Democrat Joyce Kale-Pesta as director and Republican Thomas McCabe as deputy director.

Prescriptions stolen

AUSTINTOWN

A woman said a man she met on an online dating site stole her prescription medication, according to a report.

The victim said she had surgery and asked a man, whom she met on Plenty of Fish, to stay at her Duke Circle home. She told police she had him get her pain medication from the bathroom Saturday, but when she went to get it herself Sunday, it was missing. She reported 50 pills of Percocet, an opioid pain medication, and 46 pills of Adderall, an ADHD medication, were missing. The claim is under investigation, and police have not identified the suspect.

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