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Leader of fraud scheme from India gets 9 years

The two Chaudharys, Shreyas Baldevbhai Chaudhary and Trusha Chaudhary, learned their sentences this week in U.S. District Court in Cleveland, with Shreyas Baldevbhai Chaudhary, 25, who directed the $5 million fraud targeting the elderly, being sentenced to more than nine years in prison and Trusha Chaudhary, one of his accomplices, getting probation. Among the victims was a 77-year-old man from Salem, who gave up $61,000 to the scammers and nearly gave up another $50,000 but his bank suspected fraud and contacted the FBI, which set up a sting operation. The Columbiana County ...

Property transfers for Aug. 15

Property transfers recorded in Mahoning County for July 27 to 31 and portions of Trumbull County for Aug. 3-7: Austintown Brandon Barbe and Shelbie L. Barbe to Amy E. Jordan and Joshua M. Fannin, 6905 Winter Park Ave., $330,000 Mindy B. Marshall to David Deley, 5547 Cider Mill Xing, $325,000 Jon A. Pancoe and Theresa M. Pancoe to Caleb James Decker and Jennifer Renee Decker, 5452 W. Webb Road, $235,000 Greenford Christian Church to Lynn Louis LLC, 701 N. Four Mile Run Road, $580,000 Manhattan Group LLC, an Ohio limited liability company to Shawn Mayes and Mary Kay Mayes, 4852 ...

U.S. Sen. Jon Husted has given $34,300 in contributions from Les Wexner, who had longtime ties to notorious child sex trafficker Jeffery Epstein, to an anti-human trafficking charity, but he won’t give the other $45,600 he’s received from Wexner despite having more than $6.1 million in his state campaign fund. Amy Natoce, Husted’s campaign spokeswoman, said the campaign donated “all available funds” to the charity, Freedom a la Cart. That didn’t include the other $45,600 Husted, a Republican, received from Wexner. Wexner, a New Albany billionaire, is listed as an Epstein ...

Girard, Liberty bus drivers get together to train

Staff report GIRARD — Transportation staff from the Girard City School and Liberty Local School districts came together Friday for a joint professional development program focused on student safety, emergency preparedness and collaboration. The training, which took place at Girard High ...

Austintown settles gas line permit dispute for new home

AUSTINTOWN — A dispute between the township and a utility company threatened to delay a resident’s progress on her new home, but the problem has since been resolved. Debra Day and her husband are building a home on Fitch Boulevard, right behind Meijer. She said the job superintendent for her contractor, Koch Construction, told her earlier this week that while water and electricity were all set, Enbridge Gas Ohio had not installed her service line and it seemed as though they might not do it at all. The problem arose from Enbridge’s objections to new right-of-way permitting ...

Woman charged with felonious assault in Friday knife fight

YOUNGSTOWN — Perstephanie Parker, 49, was set for arraignment Friday afternoon in Youngstown Municipal Court on two counts of felonious assault in an early Friday incident on Cassius Avenue on the East Side in which three women were stabbed. A Youngstown police report states that officers were called to Cassius Avenue at 3:38 a.m. by Parker, who said two women cut Parker’s hand after an argument about her brother broke out and the women charged at her with a knife. If Parker is convicted of the charges, she could get more than 10 years in prison. However, when police spoke with ...