2 charged in robbery of Save-A-Step store

A bag with cash, gun, cigarettes and videotape was found in the crashed car.
HUBBARD -- Two men have been arraigned in the armed robbery of the Save-A-Step store on Youngstown-Hubbard Road.
Late Wednesday, Hubbard Township police arrested John A. Jenkins, 19, of Neosho Road, Youngstown, and Barry K. Moody, 49, of Logangate, Liberty. Jenkins is charged with aggravated robbery and Moody with complicity, failure to comply and driving under suspension.
Both were arraigned Thursday in Girard Municipal Court. Judge Michael Bernard set Jenkins' bond at $50,000 and Moody's at $107,500. They will be back in court at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday for a preliminary hearing, the clerk of court's office said.
Police said a Save-A-Step employee watching monitors in a back room reported suspicious activity at 11:54 p.m. Wednesday.
Hubbard city Patrolman David Oaks was in the area and responded, parking in a lot across the street from the store. He spotted a vehicle parked in the drive-through lane, headed in the wrong direction.
Scene inside store
A suspect inside the store pulled a handgun and told employees to load up a plastic bag he'd brought into the store with money, cigarettes and cigars. He then demanded the store's videotape, left and got into the passenger side of the vehicle, a Honda Prelude, in the drive-through lane.
Oaks pursued the vehicle, which traveled south on Jacobs Road. Around this time, the police dispatcher broadcast that the store had been robbed.
The driver of the Honda lost control and the car went into a ditch near the intersection of Jacobs and Lincoln Avenue.
Hubbard city and township officers apprehended the driver, later identified as Moody, and the passenger, later identified as Jenkins. Officers found a bag inside the car that contained a .380-caliber pistol, cash, cigars, cigarettes and a videotape.
Police said both suspects admitted the crime. Store employees identified Jenkins as the robber, police said.
Both men were held in the Trumbull County jail without bond until their arraignment.