Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Cops probe grand theft
BOARDMAN
Township police are investigating a report of grand theft from an area business.
Police said the former owner of Komar Plumbing on Roche Way told officers he discovered a bookkeeper for the business had written 12 unauthorized checks totaling $126,332 to two people between September 2014 and September 2016.
The man, who said he sold the business in December, told police he went to the bank for another matter and discovered the woman had written out company checks to her husband. He said she no longer works at the company.
Checkpoint nets arrests
YOUNGSTOWN
The results of a sobriety checkpoint on the city’s South Side resulted in two arrests for operating a vehicle impaired; four summonses for driving under suspension; four citations for seat-belt restraint violations; two citations for improper child restraint; three summonses for drug abuse; two summonses for drug paraphernalia; a summons for open container; a citation for turn signal; and a citation for traffic-control device.
Members of the Mahoning County Operating a Vehicle Impaired Task Force, in collaboration with the Ohio State Highway Patrol, conducted the checkpoint on Friday night into early Saturday at Market and Hillman streets.
A total of 496 vehicles passed through the checkpoint. Seven vehicles were directed into a diversion area for further investigation.
Man receives probation
YOUNGSTOWN
An elderly man who pleaded guilty to molesting a 10-year-old girl received five years’ probation Monday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.
Floyd Sowers, 80, of Poland, told the judge he was trying to wake up the girl by fondling her clothed breast.
Sowers has no previous criminal record and lives in a nursing home, where he is wheelchair-bound and unlikely to come in contact with children.
EPA grant to Trumbull
CHICAGO
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will award an Environmental Justice Small Grant to Trumbull Neighborhood Partnership in Warren.
EPA’s Environmental Justice Small Grants program provides funding of up to $30,000 per year for non-profit and tribal organizations to help communities understand and manage exposure to environmental hazards and risks.
Trumbull Neighborhood Partnership will create an educational initiative in Warren to reduce exposure to potential soil contamination from former industrial activities.
The initiative includes creating a curriculum of best practices for reusing vacant land through urban agriculture, recreation or other purposes.
Lecture at YSU
YOUNGSTOWN
A lecture featuring Kim Anderson, a professor of environmental and molecular toxicology at Oregon State University who developed chemical-sensing bracelets, will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday on Youngstown State University campus in Cushwa Hall Room B100.
Anderson’s bracelets detect various chemicals the wearers come into contact with over the course of their daily lives.
Public meetings set
WARREN
The city, which has contracted with the Trumbull County Planning Commission, will produce an update to Warren’s original comprehensive plan for future development, also crafted by the planning commission.
Residents, business owners and community stakeholders are invited to attend one of two public meetings to share their thoughts on the city’s future.
The first meeting will be 4 p.m. Wednesday and the second at 6 p.m. Nov. 21. Both meetings will take place in Warren Council Chambers, 141 South St. SE.