Arrested on warrant

Arrested on warrant
HUBBARD -- A warrant from the Honolulu Police Department was used Wednesday by members of the Mahoning Valley Violent Crimes Task Force to arrest 22-year-old James E. Aldridge at 734 Warner Road. Aldridge, who lived in Honolulu, was indicted there in August on robbery and theft charges. Honolulu Detective Jerry Trinidad has asked the Mahoning County jail to hold Aldridge pending extradition to Hawaii.
Searching for handgun
BOARDMAN -- Township police spent the morning hours searching I-680 between U.S. Route 224 and Western Reserve Road for a handgun they say may have been thrown from a car during the night following a shooting in the township. Police say Brent Fury, 24, of 4840 Westchester Drive, Austintown, was arrested for shooting into a car and house at 228 Charles Ave., Boardman, shortly after 2:30 a.m. today. According to police, the situation began with an argument in the parking lot at Southern Park Mall, outside BW-3. Reports say the resident of the Charles Avenue address chased Fury from the house onto I-680, where another shot is believed to have been fired.
Widow reported missing
YOUNGSTOWN -- The wife of homicide victim John M. Cannell, 32, of Quentin Drive has been reported missing by her mother.
Martha Nuza contacted city police from her North Carolina home Wednesday, telling them her daughter, Michelle Cannell, 31, has been on drugs and has been missing since Sunday.
John Cannell was shot in the chest Nov. 26 in front of a West Woodland Avenue home on the South Side. He had gone to retrieve his wife's wedding ring, which she had traded for drugs, police said.
Found dead in bed
YOUNGSTOWN -- The brother of a man charged Tuesday with receipt of child pornography was found dead Wednesday in their Coleman Drive home.
Police said they found Andrew T. Felt, 39, dead on a bed, where his mother had tried to wake him. No cause of death was listed and the case has been turned over to the Mahoning County coroner's office. Francis J. Felt, 45, also of Coleman Drive, was at the residence when police arrived.
A one-count criminal information was filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court charging Francis Felt with receipt of child pornography. If convicted, he faces up to 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Driver hospitalized
YOUNGSTOWN -- Alvin G. Miller Jr., 30, of South Hazlewood Avenue was in critical condition today in St. Elizabeth Health Center after a five-car crash Wednesday night on Youngstown-Poland Road at Midlothian Boulevard.
One witness told police that she was stopped at the traffic light on Youngstown-Poland Road when she saw a car "flying through the red light" and the next thing she knew, her van rolled over.
Poland Village Police Chief Russell Beatty Jr. said a village patrolman had stopped Miller on Orchard Drive on a charge of having expired plates, which also belonged on another car. Miller then took off and was pursued by police.
During the chase, a village cruiser was run off the road into a yard. The multiple crash happened when Miller, whose license is under suspension, drove through the red light, reports show.
Competent for trial
YOUNGSTOWN -- One of two men accused of mugging walkers in Wick Park has been deemed mentally competent to stand trial. Christopher McBride, 21, of Berwick Avenue, faces charges of aggravated robbery, robbery and burglary.
He and 30-year-old Jamal Bullock of Liberty Road are accused of robbing people in the park, on the city's North Side, this summer. McBride had pleaded innocent by reason of insanity, but a court-ordered evaluation deemed him sane and competent for trial.
Both men are set for trial in January before Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.