2 Boardman drug arrests

2 Boardman drug arrests
BOARDMAN -- Township police arrested two men on drug-related charges in separate incidents.
Carlton L. Baker, 27, was arrested Tuesday afternoon in his Meadowbrook Avenue home and charged with felony possession of crack cocaine and misdemeanor counts of permitting drug abuse and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Daniel P. Simerlink, 18, of Renwick Drive in Poland, was arrested at 12:30 a.m. today and charged with trafficking in drugs after a traffic stop on South Avenue. Police said they found one-quarter pound of marijuana in the car he was driving. Both men are to appear in Mahoning County Court in Boardman on Thursday.
Shot fired at teen boy
AUSTINTOWN -- Police are investigating a report that a man shot at a 17-year-old boy in a car Tuesday night on South Four Mile Run Road. The boy told police he was driving east on Mahoning Avenue about 10:45 p.m. when the man in a blue car passed him at a high rate of speed and gestured. Reports state that when the two cars stopped for a red light, the man pointed a handgun out his window and told the boy he was "three seconds away from death." The man then drove away. The boy said he followed the man onto South Four Mile Run Road, where the man fired a shot out his window. The boy, who was not hit, then drove away.