BEACON JOURNAL
Call center holiday hours
AKRON: The Beacon Journal Customer Service Call Center will take calls from 7 to 10 a.m. Saturday, Sunday and Monday. The phone number is 330-996-3600 or 800-777-2442.
Regular business hours of 6:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. will resume Tuesday.
The Public Service Counter inside the Beacon Journal, at 44 E. Exchange St., Akron, will be closed Monday. Regular business hours of 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. will resume Tuesday.
AKRON
Officer faces more charges
AKRON: A Bedford Heights officer facing a domestic violence charge in Stark County now has charges pending against him in Summit County for the same incident, which prosecutors say began in Akron.
Officer Douglas Dardzinski, 39, of Cleveland, has been charged in Summit County with kidnapping, extortion, abduction and disrupting public service.
Dardzinski was arraigned Friday in Akron Municipal Court and is free on a $7,500 bond. He has a temporary protection order, forbidding him from having contact with his alleged victim, according to court records.
The incident in Akron happened Dec. 9 at Spring Street and Maiden Lane in downtown. Prosecutors say Dardzinski forced a woman into his car, assaulted her and then drove her to Stark County.
Dardzinski, who is on unpaid leave from the Bedford Heights Police Department, has a jury trial scheduled on a first-degree misdemeanor domestic violence charge scheduled for Jan. 9 in Canton Municipal Court, according to court records. He is free on that case on a $15,000 bond.
CANTON
Regular schedule for trash
CANTON: City trash and recycling pickup will be on its regular schedule through Friday.
Also, trash and recycling pickup will be on schedule starting Monday through Jan. 6.
For questions or more information, call the city sanitation department at 330-489-3020.
COLUMBUS
Sibling charged in death
COLUMBUS: Police are investigating the fatal shooting of a man by his brother during an argument at a home in Columbus.
A statement from Columbus police says officers went to the residence after 19-year-old Mohamud Mohamed was shot by 21-year-old Ali Mohamed on Monday afternoon. The statement says the older brother told officers his brother threatened him with a knife during a dispute and that he was forced to fire in self-defense.
Mohamud Mohamed died Monday night at a hospital.
Police say Ali Mohamed has a concealed carry permit.
The Franklin County Prosecutor’s Office is expected to review the circumstances of the shooting to determine whether criminal charges are appropriate.
CINCINNATI
Cops not liable in chase
CINCINNATI: The Ohio Supreme Court says five law enforcement officers sued by a woman injured during a high-speed chase are immune from legal liability.
There was disagreement among the justices on immunity standards. The majority ruled officers chasing suspects receive the same level of immunity provided by state law to all government employees. Justice Judith French wrote officers couldn’t be held liable unless they acted “in a wanton or reckless manner.”
Justice Sharon Kennedy agreed with the court’s judgment, but disagreed with some of the ruling. Two justices dissented.
The ruling stemmed from a lawsuit by Pamela Argabrite, who was injured in 2011 when burglary suspect Andrew Barnhart’s vehicle hit hers head-on as he fled from Miami Township and Montgomery County officers. Barnhart died in the crash.
Argabrite’s attorney didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on the ruling.