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Driver indicted in hit-skip

WARREN — A Hubbard man was indicted Tuesday on charges of aggravated vehicular assault while driving under the influence, and leaving the scene of a crash where two people were injured, court and police records show.

Justin E. Houle, 35, Stoneybrook Drive, Hubbard, is facing two felony counts of aggravated vehicular assault, felony charges of failure to stop after an accident and tampering with evidence, and a misdemeanor count of operating a vehicle while intoxicated. He is expected to be arraigned in the next two weeks in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court.

Donald Gordon, 73, and Helene Gordon, 65, both of Fowler, were injured and taken by ambulance after the May 14 crash that occurred just after 8 p.m. at the intersection of State Street and state Route 87 in Kinsman, according to a Ohio State Highway Patrol report. Their injuries were not serious, according to the report.

The Gordons did not have a stop sign, but the car Houle is accused of driving did, the report states. The vehicle traveled into the intersection and was hit by Gordon’s 2012 Chevrolet Impala.

The vehicle Houle is accused of driving left the scene of the accident, according to the report.

The vehicle was described as a white Mitsubishi Eclipse. Someone took down the license plate and followed the driver, according to the report. Brookfield police spotted a car matching the description on King Graves Road and stopped it in the parking lot of Yankee Lake Party Shop, the report states.

Houle’s passenger and sister, Stephanie M. Williams, 32, is scheduled to be released July 24 from the Trumbull County Jail after she was convicted in Trumbull County Eastern District Court on a charge of vandalism. She was booked Monday into the jail. The crash occurred on her birthday, according to jail records.

The vehicle had “heavy damage” to the passenger side, and both people inside were “highly intoxicated,” the report states.

The woman opened a can of alcohol, Wicked Ale, while police were speaking to her, the report states.

“I asked her for the beverage, and she refused to give it to me and continued to drink it. I had to grab the can from her hand,” the report written by officer Scott A. Thompson states.

The woman yelled profanities and racial slurs at the officers while they waited for the Ohio State Highway Patrol to arrive, the report states.

When the woman was being removed from a police cruiser to be searched by a female trooper, she took her pants down and began urinating in the vehicle, completely soaking the cruiser and herself in urine, the report states.

After arriving at the Brookfield Police Department, both kicked the cell doors and screamed and the woman took off her clothes and performed sex acts on herself, the report states.

“They were very loud and vulgar the entire time they were in the cells. Both individuals did lascivious behavior while in the cell. Several times I had to ask (him) to stop kicking the cell door. (He) spit twice toward the booking room … I asked (her) to please get dressed several times during her time in the cell. One time she told me no because her panties were wet with urine. She hit the cell door with the panties and urine splattered on me and a drop went into my left eye. (She) also intentionally urinated on the cell room floor,” the report written by officer David A. Kettering indicated.

“This written narrative does not do justice to the behavior that both individuals displayed,” Kettering wrote.

Houle, has been in the Trumbull County Jail since May 16 on convictions in Trumbull County Eastern District Court on charges of vandalism and driving under the influence. He is scheduled to be released on those charges in October.

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