STEUBENVILLE — A former Dairy Queen employee was indicted Wednesday for allegedly breaking into a safe and stealing more than $1,000 from the Sunset Boulevard eatery.
Jamie Smearman, 478 S. 6th St., Steubenville, was among seven people indicted by the September term of the Jefferson County grand jury.
Smearman, 35, was ordered to stand trial on charges of safecracking and breaking and entering. Under Ohio law, safecracking is knowingly entering, forcing an entrance into, or tampering with any vault, safe, or strongbox.
City police said a manager getting ready to open the store discovered the cash register money missing from the safe and when she checked the surveillance footage, said it showed a woman “wearing a hoodie pulled tight around her face, enter the office and go straight to a cash box, putting the money that was in it in (her) pocket.” The intruder “appeared to use a code to unlock the safe and remove the money that was in it” and the manager said the thief “would have had to use a key due to the office door being locked when she arrived for work.”
Authorities said the intruder was not wearing a mask, despite being aware the store was protected by video surveillance.
Others ordered Wednesday to stand trial included a mother who allegedly used a popular social media platform to disseminate video of herself using meth, a city resident who allegedly broke another woman’s orbital socket in a fight outside a downtown housing complex and a man who allegedly kicked his ex-girlfriend’s door in, then tried to choke her.
Indicted were:
• Dawn Marie Shepard, 43 Gold Finch Court, Weirton, endangering children, a misdemeanor.
Authorities allege Shepard, 46, put two juveniles at risk June 17 when she used meth while the children were in her care, then broadcast video of it via SnapChat.
• Michael Eugene Shriver, 3248 county Road 58, Irondale, indicted on one count of felonious assault and two counts of burglary, all felonies, along with misdemeanor criminal damaging or endangering.
Deputies allege Shriver, 33, kicked his ex-girlfriend’s door in, trashed her home and tried to choke her July 28. His ex told them he wanted to pick up some things he’d left at her home in Richmond after they broke up, but because he’d been drinking she told him to stay away. He allegedly showed up anyway, forcing his way in and throwing her furniture around, kicking and beating her and leaving her with a large bruise by her eye, scratches and bruises on her arms and choke marks around her neck.
The indictment alleges Shriver entered the woman’s residence with the intent to assault her, causing her serious physical harm and intentionally damaged her belongings.
• Jaymar Demonte Reddix, 22, 251 Lawson Ave., Steubenville, one count of burglary and one count of trespassing in a habitation when a person is present or likely to be present, both with firearm specifications, along with a third count of tampering with evidence. All three are felonies.
The true bill alleges Reddix “did by force, stealth or deception, trespass in in an occupied structure” and that he did it with the intent of committing a criminal offense June 27 in Steubenville.
Police had said they took Reddix into custody after responding to reports two men were spotted trying to kick a door in in the 1300 block of Euclid Avenue (rear) in. Both men fled on foot, but Reddix was taken into custody at the top of Washington Street hill. Officers alleges they retraced his steps said recovered a .40 Glock.
• Shantel N. Birden, 805 Market St., Apt. H, Steubenville, felonious assault, July 7 in Steubenville. Birden, 29, allegedly got in a fight with a woman outside Heritage Place Apartments Sept. 6, breaking her eye socket.
• Richard Robert Dobbs, 28, 104 Stewart St., Empire, failure to comply with an order or signal of a police officer.
The indictment alleges Dobbs ignored efforts to “bring his … vehicle to a stop” and that he put others at risk of serious physical harm on July 29.
Authorities allege Dobbs “led Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers on a high-speed chase all over the place, ending up in a high speed chase.”
• Eulis Curenton, 307 Lockhart St., Mingo Junction, two felony counts of trafficking cocaine.
The indictment alleges Curenton, 49, sold or tried to sell cocaine twice on Aug. 1.
In addition, authorities confirmed a city resident who had been secretly indicted in July in connection with a May 14 brawl at Club 106 has been arraigned.
Darryl Glenn Williams, 35, was indicted on two counts of felonious assault. The indictment alleged Williams “knowingly caused or attempted to cause” physical harm to an individual with a metal bar stool.
Williams is one of six people ordered to stand trial for the alleged beating. Police said one of the men had to be flown by medical helicopter to a Pittsburgh hospital, but the other fled before police arrived.
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