20 stops made as crackdown continues
YOUNGSTOWN -- City police made 20 stops as part of the mayor's zero-tolerance Saturation Interdiction Patrol crackdown on illegal activity Friday and Saturday.
Of the 18 motorists stopped, 11 were cited for driving under license suspension and two adults were cited for no operators license.
The stops included two pedestrians, a woman walking down the middle of Oakhill Avenue around 8 p.m. Saturday who admitted to police that she was carrying a crack pipe, and a woman walking on Hillman Avenue around 9 a.m. Saturday who was charged with loitering for purposes of prostitution after police saw her try to get into a car that had circled the block several times.
The other 18 were all traffic stops, most for failure to have a front license plate on the vehicles, but there were some stop sign violations and drivers operating at night with only their parking lights on.
One stop was a 15-year-old Lucius Avenue boy who got nervous when he saw a police car following him, stopped the car he was driving, jumped out and ran into a nearby house. He was cited for driving without a license.
Police seized some marijuana in one stop and some drug paraphernalia in another.
The Canfield post of the Ohio State Patrol was also working the saturation patrols, but a tally of the stops they made wasn't available Saturday.