Feb 22, 2021
LISBON A Salem man was placed on community control and ordered to help repay $11,000 from an elderly man in December of 2019.
Dylan M. Kuzemchak, 22, Southeast Boulevard, pleaded guilty in November to grand theft, a fourth-degree felony.
Judge Megan Bickerton pointed out Kuzemchak had stolen a significant amount of money and then attempted to lie his way out of it. She asked Kuzemchak to explain why she should not send him to prison. Assistant County Prosecutor Alec Beech was recommending a six-month prison term.
“I made a mistake,” he said.
“A mistake that could lead to 18 months in prison,” Bickerton said.
Feb 22, 2021 Deputies assisted the Minerva Fire EMS at a farm on the southwest corner of state Route 172 and Lowmiller Road at 12:05 a.m. Thursday after a man’s blood sugar dropped dangerously low and he was giving the EMS crew problems refusing cooperate in order to be treated. Deputies convinced him to get into the passenger seat of a vehicle and his girlfriend was taking him to the hospital. Deputy Damin Beadnell and K-9 Hunter responded to the intersection of state Routes 11 and 154 at 7:56 p.m. Thursday where the highway patrol requested K-9 Hunter check the vehicle for narcotics. Hunter alerted to the rear passenger side door and a digital scale with white residue was found on the floor by the backseat.
Feb 19, 2021
LISBON In county Municipal Court, Matthew P. Soldo, 40, Grant Street, Salem, was bound over to the grand jury for an obstructing official business charge for allegedly telling Perry Township police Amanda Hines was not in the home, refused to come back to the door and was found hiding with Hines in a bedroom next to the door on Feb. 11.
Diego B. Gonzalez, 32, Youngstown, was bound over to the grand jury on a receiving stolen property charge for allegedly driving a stolen black 2020 Ford Fusion with North Carolina registration on Feb. 9. Gonzalez was credited with seven days served, sentenced to an additional eight days in jail and fined $600 for driving under suspension, possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.
Feb 17, 2021
LISBON Bryan Scott Feezle, 43, Walnut Street, Rogers, was served a secret indictment charging him with aggravated trafficking in drugs and aggravated possession of drugs, both a second-degree felony, and a misdemeanor charge of possession of drug paraphernalia along with specifications for forfeiture of money in a drug case. On Aug. 22, Feezle allegedly had more methamphetamine than five times the bulk amount, but less than 50 times the bulk amount prepared for resale, along with $944.
The indictment was issued by the grand jury in January.
The grand jury chose not to indict Toni M. Pelamati when it met this month. Palamati, 52, Alliance, had been accused of criminal mischief and receiving stolen property.
EAST PALESTINE A Columbia Street resident reported at 2:38 p.m. Sunday there was suspicious activity outside the home around midnight. Police spoke to a man in the 700 block of West Martin Street at 3:15 a.m. Sunday who reported his girlfriend’s brother threatened him during a FaceTime chat that he was going to drive from Alliance to East Palestine to kill the man’s daughter and his dog. A similar complaint was received at 2:47 a.m. Saturday, about the girlfriend’s brother making threats against him by Facebook Messenger, but the brother never showed up and apologized later in the day Saturday to the man for his actions.