New signs have been placed at the entrance of the city’s parking garages. P-J photo by Eric Tichy

A 36-year-old woman has been ticketed after Jamestown police found her sitting in the stairwell of a downtown parking garage.

Lovella A. Kellom is scheduled to be in Jamestown City Court on a trespass charge, the department announced Wednesday — several weeks after residents lodged numerous complaints over people loitering and causing damage to vehicles inside city garages.

In a news release, Jamestown police said officers around 9 a.m. Wednesday had conducted a check of the Cherry Street parking garage — located between West Fourth and West Fifth streets — when they came across Kellom sitting in one of the ramp’s stairwells.

A sweep of the parking facility was “due to numerous trespass/criminal mischief complaints in recent months,” JPD said in its news release.

Kellom was ultimately issued a ticket for trespassing, a violation in New York state, because she was not a customer of the parking garage.

A parking attendant at the Spring Street garage said new signs have been installed in the past few days. Those signs, placed at the entrance to the garages, state, “Private property. Customers only. No loitering (or) trespassing. Violators will be prosecuted.”

Earlier this month, numerous people attended a work session of the Jamestown City Council to voice concerns over safety and the conditions of the garages. One county employee previously told The Post-Journal that her sport utility vehicle had been heavily damaged while parked inside the Spring Street garage.

The damage was one of a slew of reported vandalism incidents in August.

Jamestown Police Chief Timothy Jackson said the acts of vandalism inside the Spring Street parking garage were “most likely caused by juveniles.” He said signs were needed for officers to be able to cite “offenders” with trespassing.