Road-rage charges levied against 2 men

Road-rage charges levied against 2 men

CORTLAND

Two Warren men are scheduled to be arraigned in Central District Court on charges stemming from a road rage incident May 8 on state Routes 5 and 82.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol filed charges of reckless operation of a motor vehicle and child endangerment against William Elmore, 26; and a charge of reckless operation of a motor vehicle against Anthony Minotti, 21.

The incident occurred about 8:56 p.m. when two vehicles traveling east on Route 82 began engaging in road rage-type behavior, resulting in the vehicles colliding, the state patrol reported.

Child endangerment

AUSTINTOWN

Child-endangerment charges against an Austintown woman were dismissed in Mahoning County Area Court on Wednesday.

Kirsten Adkins, 26, of New Road, faced charges after her daughter was found wandering while Adkins slept March 27. It was the second child-endangerment report filed that week involving Adkins.

Judge David D’Apolito dismissed the charges for good cause shown, court officials said.

Pavement work

LISBON

Weather permitting, work will begin Tuesday to extend the pavement on nearly eight miles of state Route 154 in Columbiana County, the Ohio Department of Transportation announced.

Route 154 will be resurfaced from state Route 11 to Rogers, including more than three miles of a chip-seal preservation treatment between Middle Beaver Road and Morris Road.

Traffic will be maintained with flaggers.

Building dedication

WARREN

After a successful two-year fundraising and building campaign, Warren’s Boy Scout Troop 101 will dedicate a new 2,500-square-foot building on the grounds of Blessed Sacrament Church on Reeves Road at noon Sunday.

The new structure, built at a cost of more than $225,000, will house all the troop’s gear and equipment.

Troop 101 families, past and present, along with Cub Scout Pack 101 families, alumni families, parish families, and the community are invited for the blessing and dedication of the building. A public tour will follow.

Blessed Sacrament’s pastor, the Rev. Thomas Eisweirth, will give the blessing. Troop 101 Scoutmaster Jim Potjunas will speak on the history of the troop.

Writing competition

WARREN

For the third-consecutive year, Kent State University Trumbull sponsored “Excite to Write,” an essay-writing contest for area high-school juniors, seniors and honor students.

Students submitted their nonfiction pieces in one of two categories: short submissions (short essays and narrative assignments), approximately 700 to 1,000 words, and long submissions (research papers), approximately 1,000 words.

Jared Bedlion of Maplewood High School was the short-submission winner, and Mary Lynn Chan Einfalt of Liberty High School was the winner in the long-submission category.

They, their parents and teachers were honored Wednesday on campus.

Lawyer memorial

YOUNGSTOWN

The Mahoning County Bar Association’s annual service to memorialize lawyers who have died in the past year will take place at 11 a.m. today in the domestic relations courtroom on the fourth floor of the county courthouse, 120 Market St.

Attorneys memorialized will be Victor Sperling, D. Kim Stefanski, Barry R. Laine, John C. Thorpe and Joseph D. DeSanto.

Judge Robert Rusu of the county’s probate court will give the memorial address. The Rev. Edward Noga will deliver the invocation, and Atty. W. Scott Fowler will give the benediction.

Helmet ‘citations’

HUBBARD

Township police will give out “citations” to children observed wearing bicycle helmets. The citations are redeemable for ice cream, courtesy of Dairy Queen in Hubbard, 119 Youngstown Hubbard Road. Additionally, children can use the citations this summer to enter a raffle, sponsored by AAA East Central, for a free bicycle.

Earlier this month, the township police department gave out 146 helmets to second-graders at Hubbard Elementary School.

$1M bond set for man

WARREN

Bond was set at $1 million Wednesday in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court for Daimer Cescon, 42, a former Niles chef who fled the area after being indicted on theft charges related to jewelry and electronic equipment missing from a home in Kinsman Township, where Cescon was staying in late 2014.

Cescon, of Liberty and Canfield, was indicted in 2015 on two counts of theft from a person in a protected class and one of grand theft. The victims of the crimes wre women 67 and 65 who allowed Cescon to live with them.

Cescon was former chef at D’Vino Ristorante in Niles and intended to be chef at the former Hotel California in Austintown.

Task force discussion

WARREN

Two of the Ashtabula County commissioners met with two of the Trumbull County commissioners and Sheriff Paul Monroe Wednesday to discuss whether Ashtabula County will continue to participate in the Trumbull Ashtabula Group Law Enforcement Task Force.

The Ashtabula commissioners voted April 25 to terminate the contract it had with TAG and announced that it was forming its own task force following Monroe’s decision to replace Jeff Orr as TAG commander with Tony Villanueva.

But Nick Iarocci, Ashtabula County prosecutor, told Monroe May 11 that he and a representative from the Ashtabula County Sheriff’s office would ask the Ashtabula commissioners to rescind that decision.

Monroe urged Ashtabula County commissioners Casey Kozlowski and Kathryn Whittington Wednesday to allow him to submit the next grant application on Friday with Ashtabula County as a partner so that he could meet the application deadline.

Robbery reported

HOWLAND

The Check Into Cash location at 3219 Elm Road was robbed by a male at 11:13 a.m. Wednesday.

The man ordered everyone to get on the ground and said no one would be hurt, took money from the register and left in a black Ford. He had a bandana over his face and did not show a weapon.

Criminal charges

WARREN

James E. Ashby, 47, of state Route 303 in Windham, is charged with burglary, possession of criminal tools and possession of drug paraphernalia in a Tuesday incident on Maplewood Street Northeast.

When officers arrived at 7:32 p.m. for a burglar alarm, an officer observed a man running from the front of the home.

Officers chased the man on Edgewood and Atlantic streets, catching him in the 1700 block of Atlantic and taking him into custody.

Officers found a crack pipe and a computer tablet in Ashby’s pockets. Ashby was treated at St. Joseph Warren Hospital for cuts on his arms and hands that either occurred during or before the chase, police said.

The owner of the Maplewood address said later that the computer tablet belonged to her.