Cops arrest 2 on drug, weapons charges

YOUNGSTOWN -- Police arrested two people in separate incidents on drug and gun charges.
About noon Monday, police arrived at 136 Kenmore Ave. on the city's South Side to answer a call of people milling about in an abandoned house. Officers arrested a 41-year-old man on a warrant for another crime and also charged him with possessing drug paraphernalia after they found a suspected crack pipe in his pants pocket.
About 5:30 p.m., police arrested a 21-year-old man on charges of carrying a concealed weapon and possession of suspected marijuana after police found a loaded .45-caliber pistol and quantities of the suspected drug in the car's center arm rest console, reports say. The man had given police permission to search the car parked in the 1300 block of Quinn Street on the city's East Side after they responded to a report of a fight involving a gun in that block. Police handled two other reports Monday involving suspected crack cocaine.
About 10 p.m., police attempted to arrest a man for criminal trespass outside a Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard address on the North Side. He fled but left a jacket with a scale and about 13 grams of suspected crack cocaine, worth roughly $700, in a jacket pocket, reports say.
Teen called police: About 11:30 p.m., a 17-year-old female called police to her Idlewood Avenue home on the South Side, where she told officers she felt unsafe because the residence was being used as a suspected crack house.
Police found a crack pipe, copper and a small plastic bag containing a white substance on the dining room table.