Teens trespassing

Teens trespassing
YOUNGSTOWN -- Reports of breaking glass and flying bricks sent police to the long-closed Washington Elementary School on North Portland Avenue on Monday night.
The officers, who heard male voices inside the West Side school, announced their presence, then saw two teenage boys run toward North Maryland Avenue.
The officers caught a 16-year-old Austintown boy, who then provided the names of his three companions, also from Austintown, who drove off and left him. The Aldrich Road boy, a student at Fitch High School, was released to his mother and given a criminal trespass court summons.
Probe of officer
BOARDMAN -- The township police department will hand the criminal investigation of a township officer to the Mahoning County prosecutor's office for review.
Police Chief Jeffrey L. Patterson said the final witness statements taken during the investigation of Lt. John M. Rosensteel will be turned over to the prosecutor today.
Rosensteel, 57, has been accused of abducting a Youngstown woman from the parking lot of the Ground Round restaurant on South Avenue on June 2.
Carrie Eckert, a 24-year-old waitress at the restaurant, said she and a friend had drinks with some Boardman officers after her shift. She said she ended up alone in the lot with Rosensteel and he forced her into his truck and drove her throughout the township.
Robbery suspect
AUSTINTOWN -- A robbery suspect surrendered to law enforcement officials Monday afternoon. The 25-year-old man, who listed an address in West Palm Beach, Fla., was wanted on charges of aggravated robbery and felonious assault in crimes that occurred in Austintown last year.
Police here said he is one of two men involved in the robbery and stabbing of a woman who was making a deposit in the parking lot of Key Bank at 1737 S. Raccoon Road last July 30.
He surrendered to the Mahoning County Sheriff's Department and is in the county jail pending arraignment. A second man also has been charged.
A dangerous dispute
YOUNGSTOWN -- Police said detectives will speak to a dissatisfied customer and a businessman today after a dispute around 10 a.m. Monday morning left the customer wounded.
Tiant Bright, 26, of Idora Avenue, was shot in the right middle finger after he went to a South Avenue car repair shop to complain about earlier motor repairs. Bright said he talked to the owner and left. When he came back a second time, Bright said, the owner put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger, but the gun did not fire.
Bright said the owner flipped off the safety catch and the gun fired, hitting him in the hand. Bright left the shop.
The owner told police he pulled his gun and fired after Bright pulled a pistol.
Police said they searched Bright's car and house but did not find a gun.
Man, 76, faces charge
STRUTHERS -- Phillip F. Seman, 76, of Maplewood Avenue was arraigned Monday in municipal court on a charge of disorderly conduct after an encounter at his home early Sunday.
According to reports, Seman's daughter called police just after midnight because he was screaming and chasing his wife. After police arrived, Seman agreed to spend the night in the garage.
Police were called to the Seman home the night before for a similar complaint. Seman was charged with domestic violence earlier this month after another episode at his home.
He was released on $50 cash bond. A trial date of Aug. 21 had been set on the domestic violence charge.
Mysterious movings
CAMPBELL -- Several city residents called police around 1 a.m. Saturday complaining that an array of items had been moved from their yards.
According to police reports, a stop sign at the intersection of Chapel Lane and Gertrude Avenue was removed and placed in a yard in the 300 block of Chapel Lane. Patio furniture was removed from a home in the 600 block of Dumont Avenue and placed in a yard down the street. Potted plants from a home in the 600 block of Robinson Road were broken in the street, and concrete planters from a home in the 600 block of Matawan Drive were placed in a neighbor's yard.