April is Sexual Abuse Awareness Month

Please download and read the following pdf for information on how you can help!
http://www.nsvrc.org/sites/default/files/Publications_NSVRC_Booklets_Engaging-Bystanders-in-Sexual-Violence-Prevention.pdf

Lawyers for Salem mom accused of killing son seek experts for trial

March 19, 2011 - By DEANNE JOHNSON   LISBON - Attorneys for Miranda Todd, 23, the Salem woman charged in the death of her 7-month-old son, filed two motions Thursday morning. The first was for the court to appropriate money for experts to review the evidence in the case. Defense attorney Jennifer Gorby asked for money for both a defense investigator and for a medical expert. The medical expert would be charged with reviewing both the medical records and autopsy from the death of Derek Dennison. The boy died on July 23. Salem police were called to the emergency room at Salem Community Hospital when medical officials reported the deceased infant had "multiple bruises and swelling to his head," according to an affidavit by Detective Dave Talbert. Todd had taken him to the emergency room in an unresponsive state from the residence where she lived at the time on Ellsworth Avenue in Salem. Talbert also said an autopsy "revealed numerous injuries including skull and rib fractures," with it appearing that some injuries happened over time. Todd faces charges of murder, involuntary manslaughter and endangering children in connection with the death of her son. If convicted of all three charges, Todd could be facing between 30 years and life in prison. The second motion filed Thursday was for a reduced bond. Todd has remained in jail on a $250,000 cash or surety bond since her arrest in December. Her attorneys argued she is a lifelong resident of Columbiana County and Salem with family in the area and no criminal history. They asked for a personal recognizance bond with electronic monitoring. However, prosecuting attorney Tim McNicol argued Todd is unemployed, moved four times during the investigation, has two children in the area she does not have custody of and has a father in Oklahoma. Judge Scott Washam said he would take the motions under advisement. djohnson@mojonews.com

Pool Tournament at Jerzees was awesome!!

The pool tournament was awesome today! 1st place went to William Long. 2nd went to Sam Stacey and 3rd went to Tom Boscarillo.
Casey and I are discussing doing this every couple of months. 
We had a great turn out and I had a blast! 
Our Board members were so awesome and really worked great together in getting it all organized.

Thank you Tabitha, Cassidie, Marian, Brian, Amy and Sarah, Paula, and Casey for everything!!

Pool Tournament/Chinese Auction Fundraiser Tomorrow at Jerzees!!

Don't forget tomorrow at Jerzees (formally Czonkas Sports complex in Lisbon) we are having a fundraiser!! 
Pool Tournament- $200 cash prize for 1st place...(and a trophy) $100 for 2nd place
Chinese Auction....50/50...great food...entertainment...door prizes... and more!!
Bring the whole family! 

You do NOT have to enter the tournament to come and there is NO admission fee for anyone not playing pool..
Doors open at 11am and goes until ?????
All proceeds benefit CCFHV.... 

Knoblock’s cause of death unknown

March 10, 2011 - By KATIE SCHWENDEMAN (kschwendeman@reviewonline.com)

 

LaCROFT - A Columbiana County coroner has ruled the death of a Liverpool Township woman as "unknown" after several months of investigation.
The body of Tracy D. Knoblock, 40, of Seventh Avenue, was found July 29 in a creek in the area of Coal Hollow in LaCroft.
Her family reported her missing on July 24, after not being able to contact her for two days.
Police Chief Charlie Burgess was the first official to arrive on location after the department received a call from someone who saw the body in the remote location off Park Place.
He said Knoblock was found lying on her back and appeared to have fallen nearly 86 feet down a ravine before landing in the creek.
Dr. William Graham, Columbiana County coroner, said Wednesday autopsy results and other information indicated the fall wasn't responsible for her death.
"There is evidence she may have fallen, but that didn't kill her ... the theory may be right, but we can't prove it," he said.
He also said she suffered bruises and several broken ribs.
The autopsy was performed by the Cuyahoga County Coroner's Office.
Burgess said last summer and again on Wednesday that it didn't appear foul play was a factor in her death.
"Nothing at this point has led us to foul play as an indication," he said.
Less than a week after Knoblock was found, the Columbiana County Common Pleas Court issued a court order against Spring Legal Compliance in order to secure Knoblock's phone records from July 19 through July 29.
County Chief Assistant Prosecutor John Gamble filed the motion for the records request, stating then that the court wasn't looking for "anything in particular," although he believed they could aid in the investigation.
The cell phone was recovered with her body. The Liverpool Township Police Department interviewed several people during the investigation, hoping to piece together information about her death, but no information surfaced that changed the department's original findings, Burgess said in early August.
The police department received the phone records that month.
"They (the Cuyahoga County Coroner's Office) did everything to determine why she died but they couldn't," Graham said.
Staff Writer Tom Giambroni contributed to this report.

Coroner rules Young’s death a homicide

March 10, 2011 - By TOM GIAMBRONI (tgiambroni@reviewonline.com)   LISBON - It's official: Last summer's shooting death of 69-year-old William S. Young Jr. has been ruled a homicide. Columbiana County Dr. William Graham Jr. issued the cause-of-death ruling after receiving the results this week of the autopsy performed on Young by the Cuyahoga County Coroner's Office. Young was found shot to death Aug, 11 in the woods behind his home on Spring Valley Road, Wayne Township, after the county sheriff's office had been contacted by Huntington National Bank officials trying to contact him because of suspicious activity on his bank account. Charles R. Bogart Jr., 35, later was identified as a person of interest in the case by the county prosecutor's office after he was stopped while driving Young's pickup truck and also found to have his wallet. A search warrant found more of Young's property at Bogart's home on Hazel Run Road, Salineville. Then Young's PT Cruiser was found across the road from Bogart's property, parked in the middle of high weeds and shrubs. Since then, Bogart has been held in the county jail after being charged with a host of property crimes involving property belonging to Young. The coroner's ruling clears the way for the county prosecutor to pursue charges in regard to his death. Among the new information contained in the autopsy report is the fact Young was shot "multiple times" but at least twice, including in the torso and left leg. Graham believes one of the shots was to his head based on his interpretation of information contained in the autopsy report, but investigators were unable to officially determine that given Young's advanced state of decomposition, which forced them to confirm his identity through dental records. The autopsy also established the date of Young's death as about 10 a.m. Aug, 2, 2010, nine days before his body was discovered. This would have been one day before Bogart reportedly tried to pass himself off as Young in an attempt to cash a check from his account in the amount of $3,500 at the Calcutta branch of Huntington National Bank. This resulted in Bogart being charged with receiving stolen property. Bogart also has been charged with using Young's credit cards six times to make purchases between Aug. 3 and Aug. 9.

Bond still $1 million for Ieropoli

March 2, 2011 - By MATTHEW SCHOMER (Special to The Review)

 

LISBON - Bond will remain at $1 million for at least another week for a Lisbon-area man accused of making a threat on his father's life.
A trial date for Jesse Ieropoli, 20, state Route 45, on a first-degree misdemeanor charge of aggravated menacing, is scheduled for 9 a.m. March 16. An additional pretrial and motion hearing will be held 1 p.m. Tuesday.
Public Defense Attorney Eric Kibler requested Tuesday Judge Mark Frost lower Ieropoli's bond to the original amount of $5,000. He also requested Frost lift the bond condition that Ieropoli is to have no contact with his father, Nick Ieropoli.
Frost had set the bond at $1 million last week after county Prosecutor Robert Herron revealed that Jesse Ieropoli had admitted to having accidentally shot his mother in 2008. His mother's death was determined to be a homicide by the county coroner, but the investigation is still pending.
"My client has not gone away since that time. He has never fled the area," Kibler noted Tuesday.
But Herron noted when Nick Ieropoli called the county Sheriff's Office after receiving the alleged threat, he was in fear for his own safety.
"This defendant still poses a risk, in our judgment, not just to his father but to the public," Herron told the judge.
Kibler at a previous court appearance had noted Jesse Ieropoli's grandmother and aunt were willing to take him into their shared home. Herron argued the grandmother is elderly and suffering from dementia and he does not feel the aunt can oversee Ieropoli based on interviews held with her in different cases.
Kibler said he spoke with the aunt over the telephone and she appeared to be competent.
Frost noted the information revealed last week regarding the death of Jesse Ieropoli's mother coupled with the alleged threats on the life of his father and his own assured him the bond should remain at $1 million and the no-contact order should stay in place.
"I think all these factors mitigate that the bond should remain where it is," he said.
Nick Ieropoli was in Frost's courtroom in county Municipal Court Tuesday afternoon for the pretrial.
He did not, however, show up Friday at the County Court of Common Pleas, for a hearing on a temporary protection order he had filed against his son. The petition for the protection order has since been dismissed and the temporary protection order has been dissolved.
Youngstown-based attorney John Juhasz is expected to replace Kibler as Jesse Ieropoli's attorney at subsequent court appearances in the case.

Why NOT Murder????

More charges filed against Bogart

March 3, 2011 - By MARY ANN GREIER (mgreier@reviewonline.com)

 

LISBON - Another 13 felony counts dealing with receiving stolen property and misuse of credit cards have been filed against Charles Bogart Jr., the man identified as a person of interest in the William Young death investigation.
Bogart, 35, of 37509 Hazel Run Road, Hammondsville, was served with his third secret indictment since August on Wednesday.
This time the Columbiana County grand jury charged him with seven counts of receiving stolen property, three of which were fourth-degree felonies and four of which were fifth-degree felonies, along with five counts of misuse of credit cards, one a misdemeanor and the rest fifth-degree felonies.
He's scheduled to appear at 11 a.m. today before Judge Scott Washam in Common Pleas Court for a status hearing on the first indictment issued against him in August for one count of receiving stolen property. A jury trial remains set for March 14.
In the latest indictment, on the date of Aug. 11, he's accused of possessing three credit cards, a 2001 Chevy Silverado pickup, a 2010 Yamaha dirt bike and miscellaneous bank checks all belonging to the estate of William Young, along with a 2008 Massey Ferguson tractor belonging to Witmer's Tractor Sales. The indictment alleges he used the credit cards on Aug. 3-7 and Aug. 9.
The first indictment alleges that on Aug. 11, when law enforcement officers executed a search warrant on his property, he possessed a four-wheeler reported stolen from a St. Clair Township property.
An indictment issued in December charged him with two counts of receiving stolen property, a single count of forgery, and a single count of identity fraud. Court documents alleged he drove Young's PT Cruiser through the drive-thru at Huntington National Bank in East Liverpool on Aug. 3, passed off Young's driver's license identification as his own, pretending to be Young, and tried to cash a check on Young's account for $3,500 payable to cash.
The jury trial for that indictment was recently moved to May 2, with a status hearing at 2 p.m. April 28.
Young was found dead on Aug. 11 in the woods behind his own property on Spring Valley Road in Wayne Township, but during a recent hearing, it was revealed that the county coroner Dr. William Graham was estimating his date of death as Aug. 2.
No charges have been filed related to Young's death, but county Prosecutor Robert Herron identified Bogart as a person of interest in the death investigation during his arraignment on the first receiving stolen property charge.

Miranda Todd Gets Trial Date For Death of Infant Son....

March 1, 2011 - By MARY ANN GREIER (mgreier@reviewonline.com)   LISBON - A trial date of Aug. 15 has been set for Miranda V. Todd, the 23-year-old former Salem woman charged with murder, involuntary manslaughter and endangering children in the death of her infant son. Todd appeared Monday morning for a scheduling hearing and agreed to waive the time requirement for trying her case, giving her attorneys and the state more time to prepare. The scheduling conference had been set for March 10, but was moved up due to the short try-by time. She's been in jail since being arrested in December, with a $250,000 cash or surety bond continued. A status hearing was set for 9 a.m. Aug. 5 and a motions hearing was set for 9 a.m. March 18. The charges all stem from the July 23 death of Todd's 7-month-old son, Derek Dennison. Salem Police were called to the emergency room at Salem Community Hospital that day for a deceased infant who had "multiple bruises and swelling to his head," according to an affidavit by Det. Dave Talbert. She had taken him to the hospital in an unresponsive state from the residence where she lived at the time on Ellsworth Avenue in Salem. Talbert also said an autopsy "revealed numerous injuries including skull and rib fractures," with it appearing that some injuries happened over a stretch of time. Todd was originally charged with endangering children, then the grand jury issued an indictment for murder, involuntary manslaughter and endangering children. If convicted of all three charges and ordered to serve consecutive sentences, she could be facing 30 years to life in prison, with a sentence of 15 years to life for murder, a maximum 10 years for manslaughter and a maximum five years for endangering children. The murder indictment alleges that on or about July 22, Todd purposely caused the death of her son, while the involuntary manslaughter indictment alleges that on or about the month of July, she caused his death as a result of committing the offense of endangering children. The endangering children charge alleges that on or about the month of July, she created "a substantial risk to the health or safety of Derek Dennison, by violating a duty of care, protection, or support, when such violation resulted in Derek Dennison suffering serious physical harm."