Police reports

Aug 28, 2023

Steubenville Police

Bird watcher: A State Street resident said her neighbor “yelled at her and flipped her off,” Saturday. He told police they “stare at him (when) he is on his porch.” They were advised to “stay separated and leave each other alone.”

Looking for trouble: A Sunset Boulevard resident said his ex-girlfriend was pounding on his windows and doors, trying to get his new girlfriend to come out of his residence, Saturday. He said it’s been happening more frequently. His girlfriend told them the ex might have damaged her car and showed them where white vinegar had been poured on the hood of her car.

Thinking out loud: A woman in the 700 block of North Seventh Street complained a man had “yelled in her face as she was standing in (a) parking lot,” Friday. She told police she’d been in an argument with the man’s girlfriend the day before after she was “having a conversation with herself (and) spoke her thoughts aloud.” The man’s girlfriend thought she was talking to her and that she’d called her child “ugly,” and her boyfriend ended up confronting the woman. The man’s girlfriend told police the woman had asked to hold her child and when she told her no, she called the child ugly. They argued and she left to pick up supplies but when she returned, the woman “was waiting for her and again talking loud.”

In custody: A city woman was taken into custody after she allegedly lied to police about her identity, Friday. Police said Christie L. Clifton, 41, 405 N. Fourth St., Steubenville, was booked into the county jail on charges of falsification and possession of drug paraphernalia after giving them the name of a woman more than 20 years her junior. While being booked into the county jail, Clifton allegedly admitted to corrections officers she had a capped hypodermic needle on her person.

Scanner scam: A woman who allegedly stole merchandise from Walmart on multiple occasions was identified, Friday. Police said she carries a bar code with a low dollar amount bar that she uses to cover the actual product bar code when she scans the items. Employees said the stolen merchandise totals $244.

Drugs: An unresponsive male was reported in the alley behind the 800 block of Rosswell Avenue, Saturday. Police said he was lying in the roadway, “unresponsive and profusely sweating with agonal respiration” and was “showing signs consistent with an overdose.” Police administered two 4mg does of Narcan with no signs of improvement, and he was taken to the hospital for further evaluation.

Role reversal: A South Fourth Street resident wanted a juvenile removed from a residence after they argued, Friday. She said the child is “continually unruly” and had thrown something at her, so “she reacted and threw coffee on him.” Police told her throwing coffee on a child “was not appropriate” and advised her to have the child’s mother come to the residence and to stay away from the child.

Boxed in: Walmart employees told police a man tried to leave the store without paying for his merchandise, Saturday. He claimed he’d paid for the tools, air mattress and electronics in his cart with Scan and Go, but employees said there had been no transaction using that method of payment “within the past five hours … and even (if he used) Scan and Go he would still have to use the self-checkout.” He then told police the receipt for the merchandise was on his tablet but the battery had died as he left the cash registers and declined an employee’s offer to charge it so he could produce the receipt. Employees told them to leave with the items he’d have to come back the next day with the receipt, and when they produced paperwork banning him from the store, he refused to sign.

Changing times: A woman told police she clipped the bumper of a man backing out of a parking space, then later told them she “was unsure if she had actually struck it,” Saturday. Police noted damage to the two cars matched up, but she then told them the damage to her vehicle was from a prior accident.

No return: A Lincoln Avenue resident said she let a woman use her car and now she won’t bring it back, Friday. Police located the woman on Rosswell Avenue and she turned the keys over, but wasn’t happy about it and told them she was “going to damage the vehicle.” They advised her she could be charged if she did.

False alarm: A caller told police “a female was possibly thrown into a vehicle and a cell phone … stolen” in the 4400 block of Sunset Boulevard, Saturday. An employee said there was a disturbance and a cell phone may have been stolen but no one was kidnapped, but both parties left before police got there.

Seeing things: An Oregon Avenue resident told police his front door was kicked in, but when police arrived at his home he wasn’t there and none of his doors were damaged, Friday.

Big oops: Walmart employees told police a woman left the store with $112 in non-food items she didn’t pay for, Friday. They said she paid for a couple items with a credit/debit card, so they know who she is.

Booked: Charles M. Evans, 42, 1216 Oregon Ave., Steubenville, two misdemeanor counts of domestic violence and obstructing official business, Saturday.

Booked: A Wellsburg man was taken into custody after a traffic stop for having a registration that expired four years ago, Sunday. Steven Iverson, 25, 3400 Genteel Ridge Road, Wellsburg, was booked into the county jail on a warrant filed by Ohio State Highway Patrol (St. Clairsville barracks), police said. Iverson also was cited for expired plates and having no operator’s license.

Cited: Christine E. Mayhew, 27, 811 Wentworth Ave., Toronto, failure to control a motor vehicle Saturday after a one-car accident on John Scott Connector near State Route 22. Mayhew’s vehicle ran off the right side of the road and struck a light pole, police said. She told them she was northbound on the extension when her foot slipped off the brake and hit the gas.

Cited: A juvenile was cited for failure to control after a fender-bender on Sunset Boulevard near Negley Avenue. The youth allegedly merged into traffic too soon, striking the other car. Damage was minor, police said.

Code issues: Notices of violation were sent to owners of properties at 323 Hill Avenue, couches in the front yard covered with tarps and furniture stored on the porch, and 1341 Oak Grove Avenue, large pile of litter piled in the rear and high grass/weeds.

Cited: John A. Hunt, 51, 220 N. 15th St., Weirton, no operator’s license and speeding; Cassidy Cunningham White, 23, Wintersville, speeding; Chelsea Beverage, 29, 205 S. Fourth St., Steubenville, overtime parking; a Ford E350 van parked on Orchard Street at Lawson, parking in an area posted for no parking.

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