Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Prisoners recaptured
LISBON -- Two prisoners at the Columbiana County Jail were recaptured at 8:15 p.m. Tuesday, about seven hours after they took off. Michael E. Armstrong, 28, and Shawn M. Cunningham, 18, both of East Liverpool, were recaptured in Beaver Creek State Park in St. Clair Township. No injuries were reported. They were jail trustees serving time on nonviolent misdemeanors. While mowing grass at the jail, they took off on a tractor, stole a car from a nearby home, and hid in a trailer in Echo Dell Trailer Park. Authorities raided the trailer after receiving a tip. The men tried to escape by going into the park. Sheriff David Smith said the men face felony charges.
DUI convict sentenced
YOUNGSTOWN -- A man who pleaded guilty in April to charges of aggravated vehicular homicide and driving under the influence of alcohol has been sentenced to three years in state prison. Stephan Carlomagna, 19, of Warner Road, Hubbard, was taken to Mahoning County Jail after being sentenced Tuesday by Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge R. Scott Krichbaum in the death of Carlomagna's passenger, Edrow W. Stargell, 18, of Liberty. The crash occurred Nov. 19 at Mahoning and Maryland avenues. Judge Krichbaum also fined Carlomagna $500, suspended his driver's license for five years and ordered him to pay the costs of his prosecution.
Aggravated robbery
YOUNGSTOWN -- Three counts of aggravated robbery filed against John A. Jenkins will be considered by a Mahoning County grand jury. The case against Jenkins, 19, of Neosho Road, was bound over to the grand jury Tuesday from municipal court. Jenkins is accused in last month's armed robberies of Pizza Joe's, Cornersburg Pizza and East of Chicago Pizza, all on Canfield Road.
Gunshot victim
EAST LIVERPOOL -- A Pittsburgh man was recovering in East Liverpool City Hospital on Tuesday after being shot. Police said William Lane, 40, was shot in the arm and side about 10 p.m. Monday. Lane was visiting a house on Laurel Avenue when he was shot. No charges are expected to be filed against Lane.
81-year-old mugged
LIBERTY -- Township police are looking for the woman who stole an 81-year-old township man's wallet late Monday. According to police, the man said he was driving down Belmont Avenue just before midnight when the twenty-something woman flagged him down and asked for $20 for gas. She offered a necklace and earrings in exchange for the money, he told officers. The woman went to a nearby home to get the jewelry, leaving the man an identification card to hold until she returned, reports said. Reports say the man told officers that he and the woman "struck a deal" upon her return and the woman began trying to make out with him. He noticed his wallet missing later.
Pool cue assault
AUSTINTOWN -- A man was assaulted with a pool cue outside Greenbriar Apartments on South Raccoon Road, police said. Police said the 22-year-old victim reported he confronted the suspect about 3 a.m. Monday after the suspect hit the victim's truck while trying to park. An argument got physical and the suspect took a pool cue from the victim's truck and hit him with it. The victim said he remembered nothing after that until he woke up in a hospital.