YOUNGSTOWN City police investigate South Side robberies

Police responded to two armed robberies and a drive-by shooting and made two drug arrests.
YOUNGSTOWN -- City police received two reports of separate armed robberies on the South Side.
A 41-year-old employee of Eagle Heights Academy on Market Street said he was walking to his vehicle, parked on West Delason Avenue, after checking on a truant student about 1:35 p.m. Wednesday when three men in their 40s approached him, police said.
One pulled a gun and the victim gave him a gold rope necklace, a college class ring, a wedding band, a watch and $56.
Bus stop: A 44-year-old East Side man told police he was robbed about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday as he sat waiting for a bus in a WRTA booth at Market Street and Marion Avenue.
Two men approached, one pointing a gun. The victim was thrown to the ground, kicked and punched as one of the robbers went through his pockets, stealing a wallet containing $2 and a birth certificate.
Drug arrests: Also on Wednesday, police arrested two South Side women in North Side drug arrests and received a report of shots fired into a South Side home.
A 47-year-old East Florida Avenue woman was arrested about 6 p.m. by officers checking vacant apartments on Otis Street after complaints of drug traffic in the area.
Officers found the woman at a kitchen counter in one of the units with a crack pipe and several small rocks of suspected crack cocaine. She faces criminal trespass, drug abuse-cocaine and drug paraphernalia charges.
A 35-year-old Hudson Avenue woman faces drug abuse-cocaine and drug paraphernalia charges after police found a small bag of suspected crack cocaine and a crack pipe in her car during a traffic stop, police reports show.
The woman also faces a charge of driving with an expired operator's license after the 11:15 p.m. traffic stop on Delaware Avenue near Covington Street on the city's North Side.
Earlier in the night, a 65-year-old West Ferndale Avenue woman reported to police that a bullet went through a rear outer wall and two walls inside her home. She said she heard gunshots coming from behind the home at about 8:30 p.m. and saw a car drive away.