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CRIME & SAFETY
Credit card skimmer found at Boardman grocery store check-out line
Boardman Police are trying to find out who attached a skimmer to a credit card reader at the checkout line of a township grocery store. A police report doesn’t name the store but gives its address as 4121 South Avenue. When a customer noticed that the cover on the...
Suspect arrested for alleged street sign theft after Boardman police manhunt
People living in a usually quiet, upscale Boardman residential area may have wondered why police converged on their neighborhood during the wee hours of the weekend. One of the residents faces criminal charges after township police say he admitted stealing a street sign from his neighborhood because he thought it would be “cool” to have it.
Youngstown Police say mom was at bar, leaving six-year-old alone at 1 a.m.
A Youngstown woman is charged with child endangering after police say she left her six-year-old daughter home alone while she went to a bar after midnight. Police went to an Eddie Street home after 1 a.m. Monday to investigate a tip that a child was there unattended. Finding the front...
Coroner IDs man found shot to death on Youngstown driveway
The Mahoning County Coroner has released the name of a man who was shot to death on Youngstown's Southside last week. Fifty-one-year-old Jermaine Tillis was shot along East Judson Avenue near Rush Blvd. just after 5 a.m. Tuesday. Officers found the victim lying in a driveway. Police have not said...
State Patrol Lisbon Post announces plans for OVI checkpoint
The Lisbon Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol announced that troopers will operate an OVI checkpoint this week. The patrol says the county where the checkpoint will take place will be announced the day prior to the checkpoint, and the location will be announced the morning of the checkpoint.
Alliance man dead, woman critical after being struck by Amtrak passenger train in Sebring
The Ohio State Highway Patrol and the Mahoning County Coroner are investigating after two people were struck by a train in the Village of Sebring. Sebring Police contacted the patrol after receiving word from Norfolk Southern Railroad just before 2 a.m. Monday a man and a woman were struck by an Amtrak passenger train near Pennsylvania Avenue between the cross streets of 16th and 17th Streets.
Youngstown man’s eyewitness account of Trump shooting
CLEVELAND — A moment that captured the nation's attention, an assignation attempt on former president Donald Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, which is only about an hour and some change away from Youngstown, Ohio. Several Ohioans crossed the border to attend the Pennsylvania rally, including Mahoning County...
Police: Woman admits torching Youngstown home
We now know why police were called as flames raced through a home on Youngstown’s Southside last week. Police say a woman who had been living with the owner of a house on the 3600 block of Neilson Avenue confessed to setting it on fire last Tuesday. When firefighters...
Girard man pleads guilty to drug possession after officers found him with meth
A man received a six-month prison sentence after pleading guilty to a bill of information charging him with aggravated possession of drugs and violation of a protection order. The case involved Anthony Rice, 30, of East Kline Street, Girard, at an incident on March 8. Rice was found at his mother’s house where he was not allowed. Officers located plastic bags of a substance that later tested out to be 0.12 grams of methamphetamine.
ATF offers $10,000 reward for information in Youngstown gun store robbery
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a trade association for the firearms industry, are offering a reward for information that leads to the identification and arrest of the individuals responsible for the July 10 burglary of Tactical Firearms at 2959 Canfield Rd., in Youngstown.
Man arrested after making a wrong turn and having a gun in his pocket while driving
A motorist pulled over for an alleged illegal turn was taken to Mahoning County Jail Tuesday afternoon after he admitted to a police officer he had a gun in his pocket. Devonte Whitfield, 30, was charged with improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle and having weapons while under disability by Youngstown police. He was arraigned Wednesday in Youngstown Municipal Court.
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