Underage sales charged

Underage sales charged
YOUNGSTOWN -- Convenience-store clerks from Ally Deli and Food Mart, 3216 South Ave.; Petra Foods, 2402 South Ave.; and Danny G's, 2328 Mahoning Ave., were due in municipal court today, charged with selling alcohol to an underage person.
Vice squad officers said Raed N. Abuali, 28, of Glenwood Avenue sold a six-pack of beer to a 20-year-old cooperating witness at Ally Deli; Francina C. Orellano, 35, of Tod Avenue sold a six-pack of beer to a 19-year-old at Petra; and Abdo Ahmed Saleh, 42, of Mahoning Avenue sold a six-pack of beer to a 20-year-old at Danny G's.
All three clerks were issued citations Friday night.
Man faces charges
YOUNGSTOWN -- Devon Sharper, 23, of Idora Avenue was arrested on charges of carrying a concealed weapon, drug-abuse marijuana, resisting arrest and driving with an expired license after police confronted him outside a suspected drug house on West Chalmers Avenue over the weekend.
Police said Sharper was able to free his right hand from handcuffs and attempted to run, striking an officer in the process.
Sharper later explained that he is double-jointed in his thumbs and showed police how he moved his right thumb to escape from the handcuffs.
Sharper was treated for facial injuries suffered during the arrest before being booked into the county jail.
Special meeting set
LOWELLVILLE -- The board of education will have a special meeting at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in the high school's library-media center.
The board then will adjourn and move to an executive session for a suspension hearing.
Teen critical after fall
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. -- A 17-year-old girl was in critical condition this morning after a fall Monday afternoon near the Kildoo Falls in McConnell's Mill State Park.
Obie Derr, park manager, said Christina Thomas was hiking with her boyfriend around 4:30 p.m. when the pair went off the regular trail.
Thomas was walking ahead of her boyfriend when she turned to speak to him and fell about 32 feet in an area between Kildoo Bridge and the Slippery Rock Creek, Derr said.
The park manager said she was flown to Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh.
Derr said another person had fallen in that same spot about six years ago.
He noted that the rocks along the water are slippery, and park rangers advise everyone to stay on the marked trails.
Wreck injures three
MERCER, Pa. -- Pennsylvania State Police said three people were injured in a two-vehicle accident on Pa. Route 258 in Findley Township.
Police said Jeneane Crago, 18, of Canfield was southbound on Route 258 when she lost control of her vehicle and it went off the side of the road around 2:30 p.m. Thursday.
She tried to steer back onto the road but the vehicle slid out of control and into the northbound lane, where it hit a car driven by Thomas Young, 50, of Mercer.
The impact was nearly a head-on collision, police said.
Young was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center in Youngstown, where he remained in stable condition today.
Crago and a passenger, Jennifer Hudoba, 17, of Canfield, were treated at United Community Hospital.
Police said everyone was wearing a seat belt.
Apprehended at store
HERMITAGE, Pa. -- Police said a man accused of shoplifting at the Kaufmann's store in the Shenango Valley Mall also had suspected drugs in his possession.
Philip G. Tunanidas, 53, of Parkway Drive, Poland, was apprehended by store security personnel around 3:25 p.m. Monday after he was suspected of stealing about $80 worth of merchandise.
Police officers called to the scene said they found suspected cocaine and some drug paraphernalia in his possession.
He was held overnight and faced arraignment later today on charges of retail theft, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Theft at store reported
SALEM -- Police said a man left the Giant Eagle supermarket on East State Street without paying for 40 cans of baby formula valued at $440.
A customer told store managers a man filled two hand-held shopping baskets with the cans of formula about 1 p.m. Monday, walked out of the store and fled in a car with two other men.