Delivery driver robbed

Delivery driver robbed
SHARON, Pa.-- Police said a female pizza delivery driver for Four Star Pizza reported being robbed at gunpoint in the 200 block of Mesabi Street.
The driver said that when she arrived at the location, she was confronted by a man wielding a handgun who pulled her behind the apartment complex where two other men were waiting.
The men took the two pizzas she was carrying as well as money from her pocket, the driver said.
Man gets jail for cursing
YOUNGSTOWN -- A Canfield man was given a 30-day jail sentence Thursday after he cursed at a judge.
As he was leaving a hearing in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, Vincent Giordano called Judge Maureen A. Cronin a profane name. The judge heard him, ordered him brought back into the courtroom and sentenced him to 30 days in the county jail for contempt of court.
Giordano, 40, of Callahan Drive, is awaiting trial on multiple counts of receiving stolen property, passing bad checks and forgery.
Charged in 911 prank calls
SHARON, Pa. -- Police said they think they've solved a series of prank calls to the Mercer County 911 Center.
They charged Brandon J. Passel, 18, of Sherman Avenue with 18 counts of false alarms to public service agencies and seven counts of making terroristic threats.
Police said the calls, made between Sept. 11 and 22, reported false emergencies at various locations around the city. The terroristic threats charges stem from allegations of explosives' or other dangerous materials' being involved in the phony emergencies.
All of the calls were made from a cellular phone, police said.
A Sharon officer checking 911 tapes of the calls recognized Passel's voice, and a warrant was issued for his arrest. He was arraigned Wednesday before District Justice Henry Russo, who freed him on his own recognizance.
Obstructing roadway
MERCER, Pa. -- Pennsylvania State Police said they have charged a Jellison Lane couple with obstructing public highway or passages for blocking a school bus turnaround near their home.
Police gave no motive for the actions of Ellyn S. Atkinson, 61, and Chris D. Atkinson, 51, but said the two barricaded a bus turnaround on Bend Road where it dead-ends at Interstate 80 in Lackawannock Township between Aug. 29 and Sept. 17.
The couple will face a hearing before District Justice Ruth French, police said.
Suspicious package
YOUNGSTOWN -- A suspicious package at the main post office downtown early today turned out to be household goods, said Lou Ciavarella, a member of the police department's bomb squad.
The post office called 911 at 2:56 a.m. Ciavarella said the package was stained and leaking. He said a post office employee moved it to the dock, where the bomb squad robot was used to open it.
He said the package had been shipped by a man in the military stationed in Okinawa to a relative in Austintown.
Cemetery decorations
EAST PALESTINE -- Flowers and decorations at Glenview Cemetery must be removed by Oct. 15 or they will be discarded, city officials have announced.
Fall and winter decorations may be placed beginning Nov. 1.
For more information call city hall, (330) 426-4367, Ext. 18 or 19.
Man damages gas hose
YOUNGSTOWN -- A 34-year-old Struthers man who pulled in the wrong way to get gas at the BP station at 3827 Market St. at 11 p.m. Thursday gave the attendant a hard time when told he couldn't stretch the gas line over the top of his car.
The West Omar Street man then got back into his car, forgetting that the hose was still stretched across the top of it, and began to turn his car around. The movement ripped the hose from the pump.
The man told police he would return today to pay for the damage.
Parolee arrested
SHARON, Pa. -- Police said probation and parole agents arrested a parolee on drug charges in the 300 block of Malleable Street.
The agents were in the area around 1 a.m. today and spotted Ramon D. Jackson, 27, of Quinby Street, on Malleable and recognized him as one of their parolees. When they tried to speak to him, he ran away but was quickly apprehended, police said.
He had two plastic bags of suspected marijuana and two small bags of suspected crack cocaine and $95 in his possession, police said.
Jackson was charged with possession of controlled substances and possession of controlled substances with intent to deliver.
He was also lodged in jail on a parole detainer and faced arraignment today.