Summit County

Akron
Domestic violence/assault

Toney L. Williams Jr., 19, whose last known address was on Aberdeen Street, was charged Feb. 13 with domestic violence and threat of force. Police were told Williams punched a woman and then kneed her in the eye and the stomach when she fell to the ground. He also is accused of pulling her hair and threatening to beat her up every time he saw her, police said.

James A. Tellington, 36, of Haynes Street, was charged Feb. 12 with domestic violence and threat of force. Tellington is accused of dragging a woman around a house, choking and threatening her.

Daniel L. Travis, 24, of South Rhodes Avenue, was charged Feb. 11 with domestic violence, criminal trespass and obstructing official business. The victim told police she gave Travis the key to her home to obtain items for their child, who was in the hospital. When she returned home, she said, Travis allegedly had moved personal items and clothing into the residence, reports said. When she told him to remove the items and leave, he allegedly punched and slapped her. Police found him hiding under a bed, reports said.

An Independence Avenue girl, 16, was charged Feb. 11 with domestic violence. The girl is accused of quarreling with her mother because she would not take her to the mall, spitting in her mother's face, slapping her and punching her in the nose.

Terrell R. Edmondson, 28, of Garfield Heights, was charged Feb. 8 with domestic violence, kidnapping and felonious assault. Edmondson is accused of holding a woman against her will for more than five hours and beating her with an electrical cord. Police said they saw severe cuts on the woman's arms, legs and back. She was able to call 911 after she locked herself in the bathroom, reports said. Police said Edmondson was found hiding behind a couch.

Thefts

A cab driver told police Feb. 14 he was robbed at gunpoint by two males he had picked up on Second Avenue. He took them to Franklin Street, where one pulled a gun and demanded money. They got $30 and fled from the cab.

Someone pried a lock off the door at Today Club II, 767 N. Main St., on Feb. 12. Two cash boxes were pried open and the money was taken.

A burglary was reported Feb. 12 in the 1400 block of Rockaway Street. Someone forced the door open and stole a .357-caliber handgun.

An Ardella Avenue boy, 17, was charged Feb. 12 with robbery and aggravated burglary. According to reports, the boy entered an Ardella Avenue residence, pushed the resident to the ground, grabbed her purse, and kicked and threatened her before fleeing.

Jason T. Kurzel, 29, of Brown Street, was charged Feb. 11 with burglary. Police said Kurzel leaped through a window of a Brighton Drive residence and fell onto the floor inside. The report said the resident ran upstairs and called police, who found Kurzel hiding under a couch in the basement.

Three males robbed Dairy Queen, 691 E. Wilbeth Road, at gunpoint Feb. 8. The report said one of the men ordered food, another pulled a handgun when the register opened and a third removed cash from the register. The three fled with $525, police said.

An aggravated robbery was reported Feb. 6 in the 300 block of Sherman Street. As a man was leaving his home to go to work, another man put a gun to his head and demanded ''weed'' and money. The robber allegedly went through the man's pockets, knocked the man to the ground, then went into his apartment. He took jewelry and a wallet, reports said.

Drugs

Cedric P. Thomas, 29, and Andre Thomas, 42, of Cole Avenue, were charged Feb. 7 with trafficking in drugs, possession of drugs and possession of criminal tools. Shawn W. Bridges, 29, of Bellevue Avenue, was charged with drug abuse. Police stopped their vehicle and said they found 28 grams of marijuana on Cedric Thomas and 25 grams of marijuana on Bridges. Using a search warrant at the Cole Avenue residence, police said, they found 386 grams of crack cocaine, digital scales and two handguns. Cedric Thomas was also charged with having weapons illegally.

David W. Cogar, 45, of East Archwood Avenue, was charged Feb. 5 with possession of drug paraphernalia, resisting arrest and tampering with evidence. Police said Cogar was seen at a drug location near Cole and Marcy avenues. He is accused of placing several rocks of crack cocaine in his mouth and fighting with officers. He also had a glass tube and a wad of chore boy, reports said.

Barberton
Arrests

Jerry Fox, 68, of Saxon Circle, was charged Feb. 12 with theft. Fox owns a property on Stratford Street. He is accused of stealing a truck load of his tenant's belongings while evicting the tenant on Feb. 12.

Nicholas H. Bianco, 24, of West Lake Avenue, was arrested Feb. 14 on warrants for possession of cocaine and having a weapon illegally.

Edward Tanner, 25, of Seventh Street Northwest, was charged Feb. 16 with domestic violence. He is accused of throwing a lighter at his girlfriend, hitting her in the forehead and punching her in the face.

Burglary

Someone broke a kitchen door window to enter a home on 25th Street Northwest on Feb. 14. More than $200 was reported stolen from a wallet.

Theft

An East Huston Street man reported Feb. 16 that two handguns were missing from his home. He told police he hasn't had the guns out in two years but said when he went to the closet to get them on Feb. 15, they were missing.

A 31st Street Southwest woman reported Feb. 10 that $4,100 was stolen from her purse on Feb. 2.

A Bellview Avenue man reported Feb. 13 that someone stole his wallet containing credit cards from a locker at the YMCA, 500 W. Hopocan Ave.

Bath Township
Arrests

Natasha Malone, 22, of Akron, was charged Feb. 15 with felony fleeing, drunk driving and driving under a suspended license. Police responded to Taco Bell on Medina Road for a report of a possible drunk driver in the drive-through. According to a report, an officer tried to stop Malone's vehicle, but she sped off, reaching speeds of over 85 mph on West Market Street until she was stopped by Akron police.

Fraud

A Lake Point Drive man, 81, reported Feb. 13 that between Feb. 5 and 7, he wired $6,500 in two transactions to Canada after receiving calls from someone identifying himself as his grandson. The caller told the man he was in trouble and needed $3,500 for legal costs. After wiring the money, the man received a second call asking for an additional $3,000 for attorney fees. The man refused to wire money the third time he heard from the caller. He later found out that his grandson knew nothing about the calls.

Copley Township
Arrests

Brian Steingrabe, 27, of Akron, was charged Feb. 10 with assault. He is accused of punching his girlfriend in the face in her Crestmont Court home.

Theft

A Mull Avenue woman reported Feb. 18 that checks belonging to her 17-year-old daughter were stolen, forged and cashed. She said she isn't sure when the checks were taken, but her daughter was receiving nonsufficient fund notices on her account.

Coventry Township
Arrest

Shannon Nicholson, 45, of Manchester Road, was booked at the Summit County Jail on a domestic violence charge Feb. 10 after a woman at the same house said he grabbed her by the waist and wrestled her to the ground.

Cuyahoga Falls
Miscellaneous

Ralph G. Fry III, 33, of 10th Street, was charged Feb. 14 with operating a vehicle under the influence, reckless operation and endangering children. Police said Fry had an unrestrained toddler in his vehicle.

A Seventh Street boy, 15, was charged Feb. 14 with making false alarms. The boy was accused of placing a note in the boys' bathroom threatening to burn down Cuyahoga Falls High School, 2300 Fourth St.

Fairlawn
Arrests

Lisa Krycyk, 19, of Barberton, was charged Feb. 19 with misuse of a credit card. She is accused of stealing a co-worker's debit card while they worked at City Laundry, 115 Ghent Road, then using the card for nearly $700 in unauthorized purchases at local stores.

A warrant was issued Feb. 19 for George V. Romanotto, 43. He is accused of using another man's identity when giving information to police about a suspect in a robbery that occurred at a local pharmacy in 2002. By the time police discovered Romanotto's alleged deception, it was too late to find him to testify at the suspect's trial.

Lester D. Shadeck, 54, of Akron, was charged Feb. 12 with illegal processing of a forged drug document. He is accused of using a forged prescription to obtain Oxycontin from Rite Aid, 2975 W. Market St.

Kidnapping

A 46-year-old woman waiting in line at the Giant Eagle pharmacy, 2775 W. Market St., was approached by a 45-year-old man who mumbled something she could not hear. She told police she stepped closer to the man to hear what he was saying when he grabbed her in a bear hug and began to drag her away. She said he kept repeating, ''You shouldn't have gotten so close to me.'' She said he dragged her a couple of feet before she was able to get away. The man remained at the store until police arrived, then he was transported to St. Thomas Hospital for psychiatric evaluation.

Green
Arrests

Stefan Green, 18, of Molly Drive, was booked at the Summit County Jail on a domestic violence warrant Feb. 13.

Ernest Dean, 52, of Mayfair Road, was charged with arson, domestic violence and disrupting public services Feb. 12 after another man in the house said the suspect was throwing household items into the fireplace, which resulted in the mantel catching fire.

At another Mayfair Road address, Belinda England, 30, was booked Feb. 11 for domestic violence. England is accused of threatening physical harm to a man in the apartment.

On Feb. 9, the State Highway Patrol arrested Darrell Terrell, 47, of Elson Street Southeast, Canton, on a domestic violence warrant out of Green.

Thefts

A Brookline Road moving company representative told deputies Feb. 14 that someone removed the front grill, worth $1,000, from a pickup parked at the building.

Two laptop computers, worth a total of $5,800, were reported stolen Feb. 14 from a Stoneham Road business.

Lakemore
Theft

An employee of a Brooklyn Heights business reported to Lakemore police on Feb. 11 that copper pipe worth $3,000 was removed from the basement of a Sunnyside Drive residence.

New Franklin
Burglary

A North Oval Drive woman told police Feb. 9 that a laptop computer, camera, jewelry and other items, worth a total of $3,439, were taken by someone who got into the home by forcing open a door.

Norton
Arrests

Christopher J. Oddo, 36, of Gardner Boulevard, was charged Feb. 17 with domestic violence. He is accused of shoving his 41-year-old wife. She told police Oddo came home drunk from a bowling tournament and began quarreling with her. She told police that while she was on the phone with police, he grabbed the phone and broke it.

Chadwick Weber, 21, of Woodlawn Drive, and William Borland Jr., 21, of Akron, were charged Feb. 19 with discharging a firearm in city limits. They are accused of shooting guns in the backyard of Weber's home.

Theft

A rear tailgate was stolen from a 1997 Chevy truck parked in a driveway in the 3900 block of Harper Avenue on Feb. 17.

Springfield Township
Arrest

Cynthia Vatilla-Almalkawi, 44, of Apple Court, Akron, was booked at the Summit County Jail on an aggravated theft charge Feb. 9 after authorities said the woman bought a computer and printer, worth a total of $760, at a Cuyahoga Falls office supply store and then went to a South Arlington Road sister store and tried to get a refund. Store personnel said they found the returned boxes were filled with items other than what was supposed to be in the containers.

Felonious assault

An Akron man, 22, told police Feb. 10 that he was leaving an Albrecht Avenue school after a basketball game when a man yanked open the door of his vehicle and began hitting him with a lead cylinder. As the driver got out of the vehicle, two other men joined the attack before another man came to the victim's aid and the attackers fled.

Stow
Drunk driving

Troy L. Rollinson, 23, of Scottsdale, Pa., was charged Feb. 14 with operating a vehicle under the influence, not using required lights, crossing marked lanes and having an open container.

Margaret M. Buckshaw, 56, of Leewood Drive, was charged Feb. 11 with operating a vehicle under the influence and crossing marked lanes.

Tallmadge
Miscellaneous

James D. Clayton, 18, of Laffer Avenue, Akron, was charged Feb. 16 with operating a vehicle under the influence and having an open container.

Steven A. Sickler, 19, of East Avenue, was charged Feb. 12 with domestic violence. He is accused of hitting a woman in the nose and thigh.

Medina County

Medina
Theft

Rings valued at $2,200 were taken from a home in the 500 block of Valley Drive on Feb. 16

Wadsworth
Break-in

Someone broke into a Trease Road apartment Feb. 13-15.

Stark County

Canal Fulton
Theft

Estimating the loss at $1,900 a Tamwood Street woman told police on Feb. 7 that a diamond ring and credit card were taken by a relative, who then admitted to stealing another relative's credit card and making $1,300 in purchases on it.

Jackson Township
Arrests

Preston Chavers, 26, of Struble Avenue Northeast, Canton, was booked at the Stark County Jail on Feb. 14 for felony theft after sheriff's deputies said he admitted taking $5,000 between October and his arrest from vending machines he served for a Whipple Avenue Northwest food vending business.

Jessica Blackson, 21, of Casper Drive Northwest, was jailed in Stark County on Feb. 14 after she was accused of striking her boyfriend in the head and back.

Michelle Harrold, 20, of Leigh Avenue Northwest, was arrested at her home and booked at the Stark jail Feb. 11 on a charge of military desertion.

Forgery

A spokesman for an Everhard Road Northwest jewelry store told Jackson police on Feb. 12 that someone used a counterfeit $500 money order to purchase items.

Thefts

On Feb. 7, police were told by a Diamondback Avenue Northwest resident that someone used his personal identification to make purchases totaling $1,398.

A Promway Avenue Northwest business reported that between Jan. 16 and Feb. 8, someone using fictitious credit-card numbers made off with computers, hardware and software, worth a total of $14,325.

Lake Township
Domestic violence

Stark County sheriff's deputies have a warrant for a Lake Township man after a woman told authorities on Valentine's Day that the man held her down and struck her in the chest and face on Feb. 13 at his Tommy Street Northwest home.

North Canton
Arrest

Bryan Miller, 24, of Sheraton Drive Northwest, was jailed for domestic violence after his girlfriend accused him of slapping and punching her in the face at his North Main Street residence on Feb. 12.

Bad checks

A South Main Street jeweler reported Feb. 12 that a customer wrote a check for $848 for jewelry on a closed account.

Plain Township
Arrests

Justin Gillespie, 19, of St. Leger Avenue Northeast, was booked at the Stark County Jail Feb. 13 for felonious assault after being accused of stabbing a 58th Street Northeast man during an argument at the victim's residence.

James Ducker, 35, of Edelweiss Street Northeast, was jailed in Stark County and accused of forging two counterfeit money orders, worth a total of $1,500, at a Whipple Avenue Northwest auto equipment center.

Thefts

A utility trailer valued at $6,000 was stolen from a 38th Street Northwest church, according to a Feb. 14 report.

On Feb. 13, deputies were told that someone entered a Roosevelt Avenue Northeast storage facility and stole $10,000 in construction equipment belonging to a Jackson Township business.

Burglary

A Guilford Avenue Northwest resident said several items, including a PlayStation II and III and several games, worth a total of $1,000, were taken Feb. 12.

Uniontown
Arrests

Shawn Ocel, 34, and Kristen Ash, 37, both of Northdale Street, were each booked at the Stark jail on domestic violence charges Feb. 8 after an altercation in which she said he threatened to kill her and he said she struck him with a fireplace shovel.