Shootout reported

Shootout reported
YOUNGSTOWN -- A 19-year-old girl's new boyfriend engaged in a shootout with her old boyfriend in the 500 block of Ferndale Avenue about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, police said. No injuries were reported. Officers found 22 9mm casings in the street.
The girl told police that her old boyfriend, who is also the father of her baby, got into a shootout with someone she knows only as Ron Ron. Witnesses at the scene told police that Ron Ron is the new boyfriend and has been shooting back and forth with the old boyfriend for several months.
Suicidal man's threat
YOUNGSTOWN -- Police said a 25-year-old South Side man threatened to jump from the Market Street bridge about 2 a.m. today.
Wind, rain and the bridge vibrating from truck traffic exasperated the situation, causing police to believe the man could inadvertently slip and fall to his death.
The man's wife and cousin, a deputy, were called to the scene to talk him down. Just before 3 a.m., the man stepped back over the rail to safety, police said.
He was taken to Forum Northside Medical Center for psychiatric evaluation.
2 girls violate curfew
YOUNGSTOWN -- Police said two Austintown girls, from Woodland Trace and Nassau Court, gave fake phone numbers, ages and addresses when stopped for a curfew violation about 1:30 a.m. today on Mahoning Avenue near Schenley Avenue. The girls, 14 and 15, were released to their mothers, who said they were unaware that the girls were not at home, police said. Police said they found suspected marijuana in the 14-year-old's purse.
Charge of loitering
YOUNGSTOWN -- Kevin J. Jackson, 42, of Boardman faces a charge of loitering to engage in prostitution after picking up a woman who flagged him down about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday on Breaden Street, police said. Vice squad cops followed Jackson's Ford Explorer and stopped it near Hillman Street. His passenger, Misty Davis, 22, of Granite Street, also was charged with loitering to engage in prostitution.
Man's innocent plea
CLEVELAND -- Robert F. Elias, a Canfield accountant accused of cheating on his taxes and helping Richard D. Goldberg, a disbarred and imprisoned malpractice attorney, underreport his income by nearly $3 million, pleaded innocent at arraignment Tuesday.
Elias, 58, of Blueberry Hill Drive, is free on $50,000 unsecured bond. His travel is restricted to northeastern Ohio. He may travel for business to Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Florida, Texas and West Virginia with permission of pretrial services.
No trial date was set.
The case is assigned to U.S. District Judge Peter C. Economus in Youngstown.
No rails for bridge
POLAND -- A replacement bridge on U.S. Route 224 here will be installed without the decorative railings wanted by some residents and village officials.
The added rails would have cost the village about $168,000, but council decided not to spend the money.
The village finance committee examined the issue and decided that with a 2-mill operating levy renewal on the ballot, it would not be a good idea to ask residents to support the levy while spending money on bridge aesthetics.
Jury trial for woman
YOUNGSTOWN -- A jury trial will be held Oct. 23 in municipal court for Darlene L. Shina, 23, charged with child endangering and animal cruelty. Shina was arrested in June at a house she rented at 3916 Howard St. Patrolman Dan Mikus and Dave Nelson, Animal Charity humane investigator, said they found deplorable living conditions for two children and a bulldog without food or water.
Facing trespass charge
MINERAL RIDGE -- Weathersfield Township police Capt. Michael Naples said William Cupan, 20, of Illinois Avenue, Weathersfield, was charged this morning with criminal trespass and possession of criminal tools. Naples said police were called to a Rosalyn Drive address about 3 a.m. and found Cupan ransacking a car. Police found stolen checks in Cupan's car.