Dilapidated house razed

Dilapidated house razed
GIRARD -- The city has gotten rid of one of its major residential eyesores on the north side.
Zoning inspector Ralph Chuey said that an uninhabitable house at 110 Steel St. was razed Thursday with city board of health funds.
Chuey said the house had been an eyesore for more than 10 years. It was heated with a cast-iron stove and cooking was done on an outside charcoal grill. The inspector noted that the structure had a list of building violations and was in "deplorable condition."
Burglar, rapist gets prison
WARREN -- A 20-year-old city man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges of burglary, aggravated burglary, kidnapping and rape.
Joel Davis, no street address available, was sentenced Thursday by Judge John Stuard of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court. Police said that on March 23, Allen L. Elkins IV, 19, of Haymaker Avenue Northeast, and Davis burglarized two homes. A woman at one of the homes told police one of the men had raped her.
Elkins pleaded guilty in April to charges of aggravated burglary, kidnapping, burglary and failure to comply to the order or signal of a police officer. Elkins has not yet been sentenced.
Bristol schools meeting
BRISTOLVILLE -- The financial planning and supervision commission for Bristol Schools will meet at noon Tuesday in the middle school media center.
At 7 p.m. Monday, the school district will have a town hall meeting in the school cafeteria to discuss the importance of a 5.5-mill levy on the November ballot.
The district has been in fiscal emergency for about a year. Voters have rejected several levies on previous ballots.
State Sen. Marc Dann of Liberty, state Reps. Dan Sferra of Warren and Ken Carano of Austintown, the associate superintendent of the Ohio Department of Education and a member of the state board of education have been invited and will deliver presentations.
There will also be an opportunity for audience members to ask questions.
Man wounded in shooting
WARREN -- Township police were talking with prosecutors about charges from a shooting early this morning.
Lt. Don Bishop said Eric Barrett, 21, of Diehl Street, Leavittsburg, was treated at an area hospital for a bullet wound to his arm.
The manager of Bushwacker's, a North River Road bar, walked around the back of the bar about 2:50 a.m. and got into a confrontation with four to five people in the bar parking lot. Barrett was one of those people. A fight escalated into gunfire.
Police found the gun about a block from the bar and said they expect to file charges.
2 men arrested in Liberty
LIBERTY -- Township police arrested one man this morning on a firearms violation and another wanted in a robbery.
Marc A. Ellington, 21, of Wesley Avenue, Youngstown, was taken into custody on an aggravated robbery charge from Youngstown police. He was charged by township police with drug trafficking and two traffic violations.
Kewan Clark, 19, of Neosho Road, Youngstown, was charged with carrying a concealed weapon. He is in the Trumbull County Jail.
According to police, a car driven by Ellington was stopped for a traffic violation near Motor Inn Drive about 1:30 a.m. A computer check found that Ellington was wanted for aggravated robbery.
Bags of marijuana and $385 were found in the car, police said, and Ellington was charged with the drug offense. A pistol was found near Clark, who was sitting in the back seat, police said.
Pizza shop robbery
WARREN -- Two men robbed the employees of Little Ceasars pizza restaurant as they left the store early this morning, taking the manager's purse and a night deposit bag containing $1,484.
Four employees, all in their 20s, had just shut down the shop at 12:30 a.m. when they were confronted by two men who had been hiding in bushes in the parking lot, police reports say. Both men had handguns.
One of the robbers took the night deposit bag and purse from the 24-year-old female manager, while the other demanded money from the three other employees.
They told him they had none and the two robbers fled.