AUSTINTOWN 2 face charges of trafficking

AUSTINTOWN -- Authorities have arrested two people here on drug trafficking charges in the past two days. The arrests are not related.
Scott McCleery, 25, was arrested at his Pembrook Road apartment Wednesday by officers from the Mahoning Valley Law Enforcement Task Force.
McCleery had been secretly indicted by a Mahoning County grand jury on one count of felony complicity in trafficking in marijuana and three counts of felony trafficking in marijuana. A fourth count of felony trafficking in marijuana was added after officers said they found suspected marijuana in a plastic shopping bag in McCleery's apartment Wednesday.
Officers said they also found suspected marijuana in smaller plastic bags and a scale in the apartment.
Traffic stop
This morning, Austintown police arrested Carolyn Flakes, 33, of Almyra Avenue, Youngstown, and charged her with felony trafficking in marijuana. Police said they said they found 15 plastic bags containing suspected marijuana in her car during a traffic stop.
Police also charged Flakes with speeding, driving with an expired license, driving under suspension and felony permitting drug abuse in a motor vehicle.
Reports state that Flakes was driving a car that was stopped for speeding at about 7 a.m. this morning at Kirk Road and Hamman Drive. The bags containing suspected marijuana were in a purse behind the car's passenger seat, police said.
Police said Flakes told them she was selling the bags for $5 each to pay her bills and buy medicine.
She was to be arraigned today in county court in Austintown.