Burglary reports

Burglary reports
YOUNGSTOWN -- Police responded Monday to two reports of burglaries in which 11 guns were stolen.
A 29-year-old Steel Street man reported someone broke into his apartment and stole 10 guns between 6 p.m. Sunday and 10 a.m. Monday.
They were three rifles, four .45-caliber pistols, a 9mm semiautomatic pistol, a .40-caliber semiautomatic pistol and a 12-gauge shotgun. Several magazines of ammunition also were stolen, along with $4,500 cash, two surf boards, a wet suit, a fax machine, CDs, a computer, a VCR, a digital camera, two televisions and tools.
A 67-year-old Hoffman Street man reported Monday that between 10:45 a.m. and 1:50 p.m., someone broke into his home and stole a .22-caliber revolver, a VCR, a wristwatch and diamond earrings.
Arrested in shooting
YOUNGSTOWN -- City police arrested a Victor Avenue man suspected of shooting into a crowd on Hillman Street last month, injuring three people, police said.
Keith D. Crockett, 19, was arrested in his neighborhood about 9:30 a.m. Monday on a warrant charging two counts of felonious assault. He is accused of firing several shots outside the 3310 Hillman residence Sept. 9, injuring three people, police reports state. Their wounds were not life-threatening.
Witnesses told police that Crockett and another man went to the residence to confront a man who they believed had stolen a CD player from a relative of Crockett's, reports show. The man they suspected is a cousin of one of the victims and lived at the same address.
The two men shot toward a crowd outside the home, witnesses told police. Police had responded to the residence after hearing about 30 gunshots, according to reports.
Owner seeks her car
YOUNGSTOWN -- A city woman reported to police this week that an auto body worker has not returned the car she took to him for repairs in July, police reports show.
The woman said she took the 1985 Plymouth Caravelle to a man on Wilson Avenue in mid-July, paying him $100, according to police reports. He had worked on her car three times previously and told her she could get her car back in a week. She has since been unable to locate the worker.
Underage drinking
CANFIELD -- Cardinal Joint Fire District firefighters were called to North Palmyra Road this weekend to extinguish a fire started by a teen drinking alcohol. Firefighters and Mahoning County deputy sheriffs responded to a field behind a North Palmyra Road home Friday night after several local residents reported an explosion. Deputies spoke with a 17-year-old North Palmyra Road boy who said he used gasoline to start the fire.
Two other teens also were at the scene when the fire was started. The flames reached 15 to 20 feet high. Deputies said all three teens were drinking alcohol. The fire was extinguished by firefighters and there were no injuries. The teens were released to their parents.
Teacher assaulted
YOUNGSTOWN -- A 29-year-old female teacher at West Elementary School told police a student assaulted her while she was taking him to the school bus for dismissal. In a police report filed Monday, the teacher said the student, identified as severely behaviorally handicapped, became involved in an argument with another student.
She said she told the boy to go into the hallway and tried to calm him down, when he deliberately punched her in the chest Friday afternoon. The teacher did not seek medical treatment.
Drug-trafficking charge
CLEVELAND -- An indictment has been unsealed, charging a 37-year-old Youngstown man with possessing with intent to distribute about 3 ounces of crack cocaine. James B. Jordan Jr., of Fairgreen Avenue, is charged with possessing about 85 grams of the drug April 11 and intending to sell it.
The case is being prosecuted by the Youngstown-based Assistant U.S. Atty. Cynthia Westcott Rice, after an investigation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
Gun, cell phone stolen
AUSTINTOWN -- A Nantucket Drive man, 46, told police Monday that a gun and a cell phone were stolen from his car. The car was locked and parked in a Nantucket Drive parking lot Sunday night, he said, and the items were gone Monday morning. Police did not find any evidence of forced entry.