Woman gets wedding rings back; two people charged

Staff report

WARREN

A 29-year-old Boardman woman got her $24,000 wedding rings back after losing them at a birthday party she attended with co-workers at a house on Hazelwood Avenue Southeast last month.

Now a Lowellville woman and a Warren man are facing criminal charges tied to that party.

Cathryn D. Hudak, 20, of Watson Street, Lowellville, was arraigned this week in Warren Municipal Court on a felony theft charge. She pleaded not guilty. Police accuse her of taking the rings. She was released after the hearing on a personal recognizance bond, meaning she didn’t have to pay anything.

Charles Jones, 23, of the Hazelwood address, is charged with misdemeanor sexual imposition. His arraignment hearing is pending.

The woman said she lost her wedding rings while at the party early Sept. 23.

The woman said she was playing beer pong, which included people getting nude. The woman said she was only willing to remove items such as her shoes, hair beret and diamond wedding rings.

About 1 a.m., while the woman was in a room alone, a man tried to get intimate with her, and she refused his advances, but the man touched her, the woman said.

She said she ran out of the residence, left behind her jewelry and could not get back in the house to retrieve her rings. She called police from a nearby church.

An officer went to the home, but the occupants turned off the lights and would not answer the door, police said. The woman later filed charges with the city prosecutor.