NOTICE OF SERVICE BY PUBLICATION
IN THE COURT OF
COMMON PLEAS,
STARK COUNTY, OHIO
CITIZENS BANK, NA
PLAINTIFF,
VS.
LAVENDER J. TORRES, ET AL.
DEFENDANTS.
CASE NO. 2025 CV 02276
To the Defendants Lavender J. Torres and Emmanuel Torres, whose last known address is 117 Simon Drive, Akron, Ohio 44305 whose present residence/address is unknown and cannot with reasonable diligence be ascertained:
Plaintiff has brought this action naming you as a defendant in the above-named Court by filing its Supplemental Complaint on the 30th day of January, 2026.
The object of the Supplemental Complaint is to foreclose the equity of redemption under one (1) mortgage against the following described real estate:
Property Address: 913 11th Street NW, Canton, Ohio 44703
PPN: 221003
And for a judgment upon a note executed to Plaintiff by Defendant Lavender J. Torres.
The relief demanded is a judgment against the subject real estate in the amount of $75,941.94 plus interest at the rate of 5.8750% per annum from April 1, 2024; judgment for title costs, costs for protecting the real estate and for court costs; that said mortgages may be foreclosed and the said real estate described herein be sold at Sheriff's Sale and the proceeds of said sale applied for payment of plaintiff's claims; further that Defendants be required to answer setting forth their claims or interests in the subject real estate, if any, or forever be barred from claiming or asserting same; and for such other and further relief to which plaintiff may be entitled.
You are required to answer the Supplemental Complaint within twenty-eight (28) days after the last publication of this notice, which will be published once a week for 3 consecutive weeks, with the last publication to be made on the 20th day of February, 2026.
In case of your failure to answer or otherwise respond as permitted by the Ohio Rules of Civil Procedure within the time stated, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Supplemental Complaint.
Johna M. Bella
Counsel for Plaintiff
405 Madison Avenue,
Suite 2200
Toledo, Ohio 43604
Phone: (419) 244-9500
Fax: (419) 244-9510
Published in The Repository on February 6, February 13 and February 20, 2026.