Drug suspension

Drug suspension
AUSTINTOWN -- A sophomore at Fitch High School was suspended for 10 days Tuesday after school officials found suspected marijuana in his jacket.
The boy, 16, of Yorktown Lane, was searched by school officials around 10 a.m. Tuesday.
The boy's mother had called the school and said she was concerned he may have a gun. Police are investigating.
Abduction report
AUSTINTOWN -- Police are investigating a report that a 21-year-old South Raccoon Road woman blacked out Saturday at Eat N' Park on Mahoning Avenue and later woke up in Chicago.
The woman said a doctor at St. Elizabeth Health Center told her he didn't have enough evidence to collect a rape kit.
She said the last thing she remembers before blacking out is going to the restroom at the restaurant around 2 p.m. Saturday. She said the next thing she remembers is waking up on a couch in a living room with two men before she blacked out again.
The woman later woke up sick and with a headache in the back seat of her car in a Chicago alley.
She drove back to the Mahoning Valley, arriving at her boyfriend's house early Monday morning.
Police found beer bottles, a carton of cigarettes, and a condom wrapper in the woman's car. She said the items did not belong to her.
Hydrochloric acid spill
CANFIELD -- A rest stop on state Route 11 in Beaver Township was closed for five hours Tuesday afternoon while hazardous materials crews cleaned up a hydrochloric acid spill.
The acid leaked from a 55-gallon drum that was on a tractor-trailer. The driver of the truck noticed the leak around 3 p.m. at the northbound rest stop at milepost 11 and called the state patrol.
A hazardous materials crew from Chemtron, a national firm paid by chemical companies to clean up spills, was called to the rest stop.
The state patrol kept the rest stop closed from 3:30 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. while the spill was cleaned up. Chemtron took the leaky barrel.
The Beaver Township Fire Department and a Mahoning County hazardous materials crew also responded to the scene.
Milton Twp. trustees
LAKE MILTON -- Milton Township Zoning Inspector Curtis Dungan told township trustees Tuesday night that he wouldn't retire until April 1 so they'll have more time to hire his replacement. Dungan had given the trustees a letter of resignation Feb. 1.
On Tuesday, trustees also discussed working with the Mahoning County commissioners' special projects office to obtain a grant to pay for repairs to Scott Cliffs Road. A special projects official will examine the road to determine what type of grant is needed.
Trustees also voted to spend $559 on a saw to trim trees in the township cemetery.
Pleas in drug case
AUSTINTOWN -- Two township men have pleaded innocent to charges stemming from a drug arrest last week.
Gregory Chirozzi, 19, and Christopher Sidote, 20, both of the same address on Deer Creek, are charged with drug abuse and possession of drug paraphernalia.
They entered their pleas Monday night in Mahoning County Court here.
They were arrested March 4 when police reported finding a plastic bag containing suspected marijuana in their apartment.
Police also found several pipes, a suspected marijuana cigarette, two plastic bags containing suspected marijuana residue, and rolling papers in the apartment.
A pretrial hearing has been scheduled for 1 p.m. April 22 in county court here.