YOUNGSTOWN Cops: Man threatened and eluded

A vehicle chase took place on streets and through yards on the South Side.
YOUNGSTOWN -- Anthony Scott is accused of threatening a gas station clerk who denied him service and fleeing police in a stolen 2000 Chevrolet pickup truck.
Scott, 35, of Rush Boulevard, was arraigned Friday in municipal court on charges of receiving stolen property (the pickup), theft (a 1990 Chevrolet Lumina), aggravated menacing, fleeing and eluding and resisting arrest. Although the arrest report shows a charge of no driver's license, the charge was not filed. The Lumina theft occurred in August, the clerk of court's office said.
Bond was set at $22,500. Scott will be back in court Oct. 17.
What went on
Police who were sent to the Tru-North gas station on Market Street on Thursday morning were told by the clerk that a man, later identified as Scott, wanted to buy gas but was denied service and became irate. It wasn't immediately clear why he was denied service.
The clerk said the man threatened to blow her head off and then left in a silver Chevrolet pickup with a lawnmower in the back. Police obtained the license plate number.
An officer later saw the pickup coming out of a driveway on East Avondale Avenue and tried to stop it.
Scott drove west on East Avondale, north on Hillman Street (passing cars left of center), through the red light at Hillman and Indianola Avenue, west on Sherwood Avenue, south on Hudson Avenue, west on Idora Avenue to Cain Street and then through yards on Almyra Avenue to East Boston Avenue, reports show.
Scott then pulled into a driveway in the 500 block of East Boston, jumped out and fled on foot, police said. Backup officers arrived and gave chase.
Scott was tackled in the back yard of a house in the 500 block of Parkcliffe Avenue and subdued after a brief struggle. He had a plastic BB gun in his possession, police said.