Contraception, Car Jackers & VGC Idol: A Week In Review

1. Mentor Police helped crack an auto theft ring that was stealing vehicles from Lake, Summit and Cuyahoga counties.

The ring seemed to specialize in seasonal equipment, police said, taking motorcycles and landscaping gear in the summer and snow plows in the winter.

Thus far, and raided a chop shop but more arrests may be forthcoming.

2. Mentor City Council and administration previously discussed revamping the city's annual festival, It's Better In Mentor.

However, .

"I think, from our point of view, if you're talking about any change in the format, we're looking at 2013," Mentor City Manager Kenneth Filipiak said.

He added that meant the new and improved festival would .

3. Ohio State Sen. Nina Turner (who, by the way, is now the state senator for Mentor's fourth ward) before getting a prescription for Viagra.

Turner (D-Cleveland) said that "she has cringed watching her colleagues pass bill after bill to regulate women's reproductive health," and she wants to "give her male colleagues a taste of their own medicine."

4. The Cleveland office of the FBI and local police departments .

Chardee Barfield, 21, and Ernest McClain, 27, were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of sex trafficking of children and transportation of a minor.

They are accused of selling the sexual services of a 15-year-old, according to the FBI. Though both Barfield and McClain live in Cleveland, they would take the girl to hotels in Lake County, including Mentor, and as far as Pennsylvania to perform sexual acts, the FBI said.

McClain was arrested in Wickliffe and is scheduled to have a jury trial April 9 in the Northern District of Ohio Federal Court.

However, Barfield is still at large. Anyone with information on her whereabouts is encouraged to call the Cleveland FBI office at 216-522-1400.

5. As not to end on a negative story, enjoy from Deepwood's VGC Idol contest.