Pedestria dies in I-680

Pedestria dies in I-680
YOUNGSTOWN -- Youngstown police and the Mahoning County coroner's office are investigating the death of a pedestrian who was struck and killed by a tractor-trailer on Interstate 680. Lt. Robin Lees of Youngstown Police Department said the victim is a 24-year-old man. He said authorities don't know why the man was walking along the interstate. The accident happened around 3:30 p.m. Monday in the southbound lane of I-680 near the Meridian Road exit.
Fugitive caught in Fla.
YOUNGSTOWN -- Victor Estrada was taken into custody in Orlando, Fla., by U.S. marshals and placed in the Orange County jail pending extradition to Mahoning County to face a robbery charge, said Deputy U.S. Marshal Dean Michael.
Estrada, 30, of Imperial Street, is accused of using a gun to hold up the Springfield Grille in Boardman on April 10, 2005. He was secretly indicted Dec. 22 by a Mahoning County grand jury and charged with aggravated robbery with a firearm specification. Marshals found Estrada on Monday.
Bomb squad in Canfield
CANFIELD -- The Youngstown bomb squad was called after a school bus driver found a suspicious-looking backpack that had been left on her bus, which was near the Hilltop Elementary School at the time.
Canfield police Sgt. Cris Ruiz said the driver saw an electrical harness sticking out of the backpack. She evacuated the bus.
Police called the bomb squad and made calls to track down the student who owned the backpack, Ruiz said.
He said a high-school student who is in the electrical program at the Mahoning County Career and Technical Center claimed the backpack.
Substation vandalized
BOARDMAN -- Someone spray-painted the side of the police department's new substation. The damage to the building at 5000 Market St. was discovered early Sunday.
Station robbed again
WARREN -- The McQuaid's gasoline station, 805 W. Market St., robbed at gunpoint in daylight Friday, was robbed again at 8:30 p.m. Sunday. Like the Friday robber, the Sunday robber had a handgun, demanded money and escaped on foot with an undisclosed amount of cash, police said. There were no injuries in either robbery.
Man treated for gunshot
WARREN -- A city man was treated at St. Elizabeth Health Center after having been shot in the left thigh at 6:30 a.m. Sunday. Raphael D. Burney, 35, of Sweetbrier Avenue Southwest, was taken to the hospital by his girlfriend, who had tied a belt around his leg. The girlfriend didn't know who shot Burney or where the shooting took place.
Woman robbed of purse
BOARDMAN -- A 69-year-old New Middletown woman reported her purse stolen while she was in front of a Tiffany Boulevard store.
The woman said that shortly before 6 p.m. Friday a car pulled up behind her car and a man got out and grabbed her purse.