The Herald, Sharon, Pa.

Local News

July 17, 2008

Morning warrant sweep nets 13

By Patrick W. Connelly

SHARON, FARRELL — Thirteen people were picked up Thursday morning in a five-hour warrant sweep that began at 6 a.m. and spanned Farrell and Sharon, police said.

Charges on the warrants varied from attempted homicide and aggravated assault to minor complaints, police said.

Police from the Mercer County Sheriff’s Department, Sharon and Southwest Mercer County Regional teamed up on the sweep, a release said.

Among those picked up was a man police say was the gunman Tuesday in a shooting at a Farrell apartment complex, Terran D. Paige-Hughes, 19, of 367 North St., Sharon.

Paige-Hughes, also known as Terran Page, pulled a gun on two men in a fight stirred by a bet over a video game in Lewis R. Landay Apartments between Fruit and Hamilton Avenues, police said.

Paige-Hughes was picked up at 10:15 a.m. on a warrant for attempted homicide, aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and carrying a firearm without a license at 814 Hamilton Ave., police said.

He was taken to Mercer County Jail and held on $100,000 bond and a parole violation detainer, police said.

Also picked up on warrants in the sweep were:

• Clarice D. Somerville, 24, of 933 Market St., Farrell; at about 6:40 a.m. for aggravated assault and reckless endangerment.

Ms. Somerville cut and poked Antonio Gibson about 12 times with a steak knife at 6:30 p.m. June 13 while dragging their 3-year-old daughter at her home, police said.

• Leroy Taylor, 23, of 422 Malleable St., Sharon; at about 7 a.m. in Ms. Somerville’s home for failing to make payments.

• Sherry Massey, 51, of 205 Orchard St., Sharon; at about 7:20 a.m. at her home for failing to make payments.

• John Thomas Jackson, 48, of 222 Fruit Ave.; at about 7:40 a.m. at his home for theft and receiving stolen property.

• Octavius L. Clark, 30, of 344 S. Oakland Ave., Sharon; at 7:40 a.m. at his home for theft from Lawrence County.

• Ronald Alexander, 64, of 910 Market St.; at about 7:50 a.m. at his home for possession of a small amount of marijuana.

• Michael Parks, 33, of 521 Hamilton Ave.; at about 8:05 a.m. at his home for non-compliance.

• Don Kirkland, 50, of 137 E. Budd St., Sharon; at 8:10 a.m. at his home for failing to make payments and for burglary from Crawford County.

• Carmella Cleveland, 43, of 324 Quinby St., Sharon; at about 8:25 a.m. at her home for retail theft.

• Carmen Askerneese, 41, of 700 Beechwood Ave., Farrell; at about 8:50 a.m. at her home on three counts of failing to appear.

• Dominique Palmer, 22, of 1525 Parke Drive, Hermitage; at about 9:45 a.m. at her home on two counts of failing to appear.

• Ronald Wayne Pickard, 21, of 1264 Heinz Ave., Sharon; at about 10:40 a.m. at his home for carrying a firearm without a license.

Pickard, formerly of West Middlesex, beat and slashed the throat of a Howland, Ohio, man in a brutal Oct. 14 invasion and ransacking of his home with two local men.

Pickard pleaded guilty to the charges in April was scheduled to be sentenced Thursday afternoon in Trumbull County. He has been free on bond since Dec. 4, court records show.

He was taken to Mercer County Jail, along with Jackson, Clark, Alexander, Parks, Kirkland and Askerneese.

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