Sexual encounter in front of boys brings charges
SHARPSVILLE — Two people face charges after they had sex in front of two juveniles last week in a Sharpsville apartment, police said.
Giovanne York, 25, of Warren, Ohio, and Renee Sorg, 20, of 27 E. Shenango St., Sharpsville, were charged with corruption of minors and York was also charged with indecent assault, police said.
York and Ms. Sorg had sex at her apartment between Nov. 16 and 20 while two juveniles watched and one videotaped it, police said.
Afterward, York approached one of the boys and hit him twice in the lower back with his genitals, police said.
The pair were released after posting bond.
Man gets work release in assault, shooting case
PINE TOWNSHIP — A Pine Township man who police said beat up a woman, fired in her direction with a semi-automatic rifle, and attacked a man who came to her aid will spend 1 month to 1 year in jail.
Gary Dean Koebler, 56, of 992 Stevenson Road, pleaded guilty to simple assault and reckless endangerment and was sentenced Monday by Mercer County Common Pleas Court President Judge Francis J. Fornelli.
Koebler will be on work release and if he works every day he is able, he will be released after serving a minimum sentence, Fornelli said.
Koebler was supported in the courtroom by the woman he attacked, who had forgiven him, according to defense attorney Jack Cline. His boss also attended.
Fornelli warned Koebler to get counseling and to stop fighting.
Police said Koebler punched the woman during a heated argument, though Cline said it was an open-handed slap. He also fired into the yard as she fled the house with his SKS rifle — a Soviet-made rifle that fires the same ammunition used in an AK-47 assault rifle.
Koebler punched a young man who came to the woman’s aid and putting him into a head lock. The young man fought back, hitting Koebler several times, police said. He was not charged and did not attend the sentencing.
Battery-filled sock attack nets woman jail time
FARRELL — A Hermitage woman was sentenced to 2 months to 2 years minus 1 day in Mercer County Jail for hitting another woman with a sock loaded with batteries.
Nakwanza M. Davis, 23, of 1420 Parke Drive, on Oct. 13 pleaded guilty to simple assault. Southwest Mercer County Regional police said that on March 14, Ms. Davis waited for Linda White to open her door at 707 Lee Ave., Farrell, and immediately attacked her with the sock.
At her sentencing, Ms. Davis said she was trying to defend herself from Ms. White after the other woman came at her. She claimed she punched her in the face and then clubbed her in the back of the head with the sock once. After that, she said, the batteries fell out of a hole in the sock.
Ms. Davis said she carries the sock with her for protection at night.
But Ms. White told police that Ms. Davis came to her door upset because her boyfriend had told her Ms. White shorted him $8 on a drug deal. Fornelli asked if Ms. Davis was acting as an “enforcer” and Ms. White said she was.
According to Ms. White, Ms. Davis hit her twice in the face with the loaded sock and once in the back of the head.
Ms. Davis said she doesn’t have a boyfriend.
Police brought the short anklet sock to sentencing court, and said they found it without batteries inside, and with a hole in it. Three AA batteries and two AAA batteries were found at the scene.
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Briefs - Nov. 26, 2009
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Shenango Twp. man was hurt in Sunday crash
The driver of the car involved in a crash Sunday evening on Lamor Road at Mount Washington Cemetery in Jefferson Township, is in the intensive care unit of St. Elizabeth Health Center, Youngstown, with serious injuries, Jefferson Township police Chief Jeff Lockard said.
Thomas Zajac III, 23, Mitchell Road, Shenango Township, was westbound on Lamor Road when he lost control of the sports car he was driving and it hit a tree in the cemetery.
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Chase suspect returned to city to face charges
An Ohio man that Hermitage police allege led several departments on a July 22 chase throughout the Shenango Valley has been returned to Pennsylvania.
John W. Bishop, 48, of Struthers, was taken to Mercer County Jail and will face a preliminary hearing at 2:45 p.m. Tuesday before District Judge Ronald E. Antos, Farrell.
Bishop was charged with 21 counts including reckless endangerment, retail theft and a host of traffic violations.
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Police: Shooter jailed
An argument escalated to a shooting Tuesday morning in Sandy Creek Township, leaving a Sandy Lake area man with life-threatening injuries.
Cody Brandon Noel, 24, was flown to a UPMC hospital in Pittsburgh, state police said. It was unclear Tuesday night which hospital or his condition, but police called his injuries “life-threatening.”
Police said Noel was shot by a neighbor, Michael Allen Kellner, 48, at about 9:30 a.m. near Hastee’s, a gas station and convenience store along U.S. Route 19. Kellner was in Mercer County Jail Tuesday night after failing to post $100,000 bond on an aggravated assault charge, police said.
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Woman dies of injuries in last week’s crash
A Greenville woman hurt in Thursday’s two-vehicle crash in Pymatuning Township has died from her injuries.
Lois E. Orr, 93, of 117 East Ave., died at 6:26 p.m. Saturday in St. Elizabeth Health Center, Youngstown, according to incomplete obituary information. -
Faith doused fire; forge is new creation
Firefighters were battling one of the biggest blazes ever in Grove City when Will Knecht arrived in time to see his family owned, 87-year-old business crumbling and tumbling to the ground.
Knecht, the company’s president, formed a circle with his teary-eyed employees at Wendell August Forge and prayed as plumes of smoke visible for miles drew hundreds of onlookers.
“It was like it was a spectator sport almost, but with people in tears, people moved by it,” Knecht said. “We had employees saying, ‘Will, what are we gonna do, what are we gonna do?’ I prayed from the bottom of my heart, ‘Lord, you know what’s going on, we don’t; we trust you, you take it from here.’ ”
Six months after the March 6 fire, Knecht said those prayers have been answered as his community, employees and customers — including the Pittsburgh Penguins pro hockey team — rallied to re-energize the business.
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Farewell to summer party
Buhl Day may have changed over the years, from the type of food served to the entertainment featured, but its true intent remains intact, planning committee members said at Monday’s opening ceremonies.
The 31st annual event at Buhl Farm park, Hermitage, serves as the Shenango Valley’s “last hurrah” of the summer to pay tribute to philanthropist Frank H. Buhl and his wife Julia Forker Buhl, said Sue McLaughlin, one of five committee co-chairs.
Buhl Farm trustee Phil Marrie invited park-goers to check out Buhl Farm’s biggest upgrades completed this year.
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Man wanted for alleged actions against girl
A 24-year-old Jamestown man is wanted by state police on charges including unlawful contact with a minor stemming from an Aug. 11 incident in which police allege he sent an obscene photo and/or video of himself to a 12-year-old girl.
Bradley James Cleveland, 306 1/2 Liberty St., may have fled the area, police said.
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Borough manager exhibits optimism
After nearly five months on the job as Greenville’s borough manager, Scott Andrejchak already feels settled in.
“I like Greenville a lot. It’s a great place,” he said Friday afternoon in his office at the borough building, taking a break from working on the 2011 budget.
Council members hired Andrejchak to replace Ryan Eggleston, who resigned in November to work as city manager of Oil City.
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Day dedicated to workers
Here’s to the workingman.
They’re the ones who once put Mercer County on the map as one of the places where steel, pipe and tube, ladders, railcars and a variety of other products were made by proud men and women who put in an honest day’s work.
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League sets debate date; Dahlkemper ad questioned
Local political junkies, mark your calendars.
Third District Congressional rivals Kathy Dahlkemper and Mike Kelly will face off at a League of Woman Voters of Mercer County forum from 7 to 9 p.m. on Oct. 26 at the Sharon City Building.
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