2 arrested on South Side

2 arrested on South Side
YOUNGSTOWN -- Two arrests were made and a stolen gun confiscated on the South Side when police checked a report of gunfire in the area. Albert L. Coffer, 18, of Glenwood Avenue was charged with carrying a concealed weapon and receiving stolen property. Randolph M. Jeter, 18, of Ferndale Avenue was charged with driving under suspension and released on the scene. Police approached the Chevrolet Blazer Jeter was driving when he failed to signal a turn about 1:30 a.m. Monday. Witnesses told police that the vehicle was not the vehicle involved in the gunfire on Ferndale. The pistol found under Coffer's passenger seat had been taken in a burglary, police said.
Charged with assault
BOARDMAN -- A Struthers woman is charged with assault, accused of hitting a former classmate while at a Boardman-Poland Road restaurant. Justina Pesa, 18, of Prospect Street, was arrested on Friday at her home. The charge is a misdemeanor. A 19-year-old Struthers woman told police last week that Pesa, a former classmate, struck her in the head with a glass and then continued to hit her while at Perkins.
Fatal traffic accident
NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- An Ellwood City woman died after she was thrown from her car on Cosgrove Road in New Beaver Borough. Pennsylvania State Police say they are unsure when Jennifer DeLuca, 26, of Wood Street, crashed her car, but she was found Sunday. Police said she was traveling west when her car went off the road onto the south berm, re-entered the road and slid sideways. The car went off the road again, turned over and went over an embankment. She was not wearing a seat belt, police said.
Hearing in Warren assault
WARREN -- A preliminary hearing is scheduled for May 23 in municipal court for an 18-year-old man charged with felonious assault. Jerome Robinson of Fifth Avenue, Akron, is being held in the Trumbull County Jail on a 50,000 bond set Monday by Judge Terry Ivanchak. He is accused of shooting Eugene Meardith, 42, in the stomach Friday night at Meardith's home at 1031 Riverview Drive. He has been released from Forum Health Trumbull Memorial Hospital. About an hour after the shooting, police reported receiving a tip that Robinson was still in the area and was found hiding in a nearby residence.
Guns stolen from store
BOARDMAN -- Someone stole at least 50 guns from a Youngstown-Poland Road gun store. Police were called to Miller Rod and Gun early Monday when an alarm went off. They found the store's front door had been pried open, and the store owner said that when he arrived he found that between 50 and 100 guns had been taken.