TRUMBULL COUNTY Student held on charges

All the firearms taken in a Warren burglary have been recovered, police say.
By TIM YOVICH
VINDICATOR TRUMBULL STAFF
LORDSTOWN -- Police have charged a Lordstown High School student with gun, drug and burglary-related crimes, and he has been suspended from school.
Police Chief Brent Milhoan said Thursday that Dominic Romeo, 17, of Cross Drive, is in the Trumbull County Juvenile Justice Center after two firearms were found in his car in the high school parking lot.
Village police charged Romeo in Trumbull County Family Court with possession of a dangerous ordnance (weapon) on school property and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Warren police also charged him with two counts each of burglary with gun specifications and receiving stolen property.
Also charged
Another student, Terrance Finney, 18, of Lyntz Road, is charged with complicity to burglary.
Romeo has been suspended from school, police said. Principal Michael Alvetro would not comment on any other action against him.
The Ohio Board of Education, however, says that when a firearm is found on school property, federal law requires a mandatory one-year expulsion.
Burglary link
Milhoan said Warren police contacted his department because they allege Romeo was linked to the burglary of his vacationing uncle's Warren home between Oct. 18 and 23.
The chief said Warren police think Romeo entered the house twice and Finney remained in a car.
Two shotguns, a .22-caliber rifle, a .357-caliber Magnum, ammunition, a pellet gun, knives and jewelry were taken in the burglary.
Alvetro, the chief explained, told Romeo that he may be involved in a "safety issue" and Romeo permitted the search of his locker and car.
Guns found
Milhoan said the unloaded rifle was in the trunk of his car, and the unloaded .357-caliber handgun was found under the driver's seat. The pellet gun, jewelry and knives were found in a book bag in the back seat. Also found in the book bag were two pipes used to smoke marijuana.
The shotguns, the chief explained, were discovered in Finney's house. Milhoan said Romeo traded the guns for stereo equipment.
Alvetro said Finney has not been suspended because what he is alleged to have done did not occur on school property.
"Everything tracked back to the burglary," Milhoan said.
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