Woman shot in neck

Woman shot in neck
YOUNGSTOWN -- A city woman was in serious condition late Friday at St. Elizabeth Health Center after she was hit by a stray bullet Friday morning. Maria Torres, 48, of Ayers Street, was driving with her husband on the 1000 block of Belmont Avenue at 12:10 a.m. when she was hit in the neck by a single bullet, police reports say. Neither Torres nor her husband saw anyone fire a gun before they sped off to the hospital.
Campbell registration
CAMPBELL -- Kindergarten registration for the Campbell City Schools will be held Tuesday through Friday next week. Children with last names beginning with A-L will register Tuesday and Wednesday, and children whose last names begin with M-Z will register Thursday and Friday. All registrations will be at Campbell Elementary School from 9:15 to 11:15 a.m. and from 1:15 to 2:15 p.m. on those designated days. A child must be 5 before Aug. 1 to enter kindergarten. Parents or guardians must bring the child's birth certificate, Social Security card, custody papers (if applicable), parent identification and three proofs of residency. Proof of state-required immunizations must also be presented. Consideration will be given for children who may qualify for early kindergarten admission and won't reach age 5 until after Aug. 1 but before Dec. 31. For more information, call the school office at (330) 799-5211.
Gunfire investigated
SHARON, Pa. -- Police are asking anyone with information about numerous gunshots heard at about 3 a.m. Friday to call police. Sharon Police Chief Mike Menster said numerous reports were made to Sharon, Hermitage and Sharpsville police concerning multiple automatic or semiautomatic gunfire in the Thornton Avenue area, an area where all three communities merge. Menster said officers from all three communities checked the area but could not find anyone injured or any damaged property.
Teens arrested
SHARON, Pa. -- Three juveniles were charged and others are expected to be arrested in the beating of a Farrell man. Police said a 43-year-old Farrell man was attacked by a group of teens as he walked near New Castle and Morrison streets at 7 p.m. Wednesday. Police said the man was beaten badly and had to be taken to a hospital for treatment. The juveniles took a bottle of beer from the man as he was being kicked and punched. So far, police have arrested a 14-year-old and two 17-year-olds in the attack. Police would not say how many teens were involved. Those arrested are charged in juvenile court with aggravated assault, robbery and recklessly endangering another person.
Items stolen from house
YOUNGSTOWN -- Thieves who kicked in a kitchen door to enter a vacant house at 1602 Forestview Ave. stole the furnace, water tank, 150 feet of copper tubing, bathroom sink, water meter, electric meter and wiring from inside walls, police said. Value of the items was listed as 6,500. The owner told police he discovered the break-in Thursday.
Drug paraphernalia
LIBERTY -- A Liberty High School student has been charged with possession of drug paraphernalia exactly 30 days shy of his 18th birthday. The student was on school grounds when approached by police. Officers noticed two young people sitting in a car in the parking lot of Liberty High School just before 2 p.m. Thursday. A school official said both boys are students but were listed as absent. The officer, reports say, saw cigar papers and loose tobacco in the car and asked the boys if any drugs were in the car. The 17-year-old boy said no but produced a metal marijuana smoking pipe with "a heavy order of burnt marijuana to it" and rolling papers.
Drug, assault charges
SHARON, Pa. -- James Coleman, 26, of Emerson Avenue, Farrell, is charged with drug and assault charges after police said he pulled a gun on a police officer during a traffic stop. Police Chief Mike Menster said Coleman was pulled over at 11:30 p.m. Thursday at Quimby Street and Wallis Avenue. Menster said Coleman pulled out a gun and struggled with the officer. Menster said after Coleman was subdued, officers found suspected cocaine, marijuana and a digital scale with suspected cocaine residue in his car. He is in the Mercer County Jail. In an unrelated matter, Jason Davis, 25, of Sherman Avenue, Sharon, was arrested at 4:30 p.m. Thursday in Hermitage. Menster said Davis is charged with robbery and criminal conspiracy in an early-morning robbery of three men in an East Silver Street home. They took 400 and a necklace and held a gun to one victim's neck. Davis is in the county jail.
Robber gets 3 years
YOUNGSTOWN -- The man who robbed the Walgreen Drug Store on Market Street in Boardman on Oct. 24 and earlier snatched an elderly woman's purse from a township restaurant has been sent to prison for three years. Nicholas J. Grossi, 24, of East Florida Avenue, drew the sentence Friday from Judge R. Scott Kirchbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court. The judge consecutively imposed two years for the store robbery and one year for the Aug. 13 purse theft after Grossi pleaded guilty to those charges.
4-year prison term
YOUNGSTOWN -- A man who surrendered to police after a two-hour standoff Tuesday in the 2500 block of Oak Hill Avenue has been sentenced to four years in prison. Judge Maureen A. Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court imposed the sentence Friday on Kareem James, 27, of New Castle, on a December 2005 charge of failure to comply with a police order. After the standoff, James was arrested on a bench warrant the judge had issued after James left the courthouse just before she was to sentence him Feb. 12. James, who had pleaded guilty to that charge, was free on bond when he fled.