Brenda L. Klinger, 57, of Findlay, was charged with improper handling of a firearm in a motor vehicle and physical control of a motor vehicle while impaired during a traffic stop Sunday, July 2.
Deputies of the Logan County Sheriff’s Office responded about 10:55 p.m. to the area of Prince Road and Township Road 293 in reference to a vehicle parked in the roadway.
When deputies arrived, they observed a car parked in the road and said a woman was sitting in the driver’s seat, with the seat reclined.
Deputies said the driver was identified as Klinger and she advised deputies that she had parked in the road because she was “too impaired to drive home.”
She submitted to field sobriety tests and was placed under arrest. She told deputies that there was a firearm in a bag located in the back seat of the vehicle. Deputies said the firearm was located — a 9mm pistol with a loaded magazine.
Klinger was transported to the Logan County Jail, where she refused a breath test. She was lodged on the charges.
Man charged with assault
Thomas A. Board, 61, of 10675 Main St., Lakeview, was charged with assault related to an incident Sunday.
Deputies responded about 12:35 p.m. to Pike Avenue in Lakeview of a report of an assault. The male victim told deputies that Board had struck him in the face. Deputies observed blood coming from both sides of the victim’s mouth, along with dirt on his clothes.
The victim told deputies that he had been loading lumber on his trailer when Board approached him and began yelling at him. He said he told Board to leave him alone, but said Board charged at him and began punching him in the face. When the victim’s neighbor approached the altercation, Board left for his residence.
The victim told deputies that there has been an ongoing feud between himself and Board for several years.
Deputies went to Board’s address and spoke with him there. He also said there had been an ongoing dispute between himself and the victim. He said when the other man drove by his house that day, he made an obscene gesture toward Board’s girlfriend. As a result, the defendant said he “couldn’t take it anymore” and went to confront him.
Board was lodged in the jail without incident.
Semi strikes building after 2-vehicle crash, no injuries reported
A crash in Belle Center Thursday, June 29, involving a semi tractor-trailer and a cargo van resulted concluded with the semi striking a building in the village, deputies report.
Jason L. Murrell, 48, of Cincinnati, reportedly was operating a southbound cargo van on State Street about 11:35 a.m. when he ran a stop sign at the intersection of Buckeye Street (State Route 273) and struck a westbound semi operated by John D. Sousley, 41, of Ada.
The semi then went off the southwest side of the intersection and was pushed into a building at 107 N. State St.
Deputies said the building owner was contacted, and damage appeared to be only cosmetic and not structural from plain view.
Damage was heavy to both vehicles, which were towed from the scene.