Car stolen at bank

Car stolen at bank

AUSTINTOWN — A man’s car was stolen while he tried to make a night deposit at a bank on Mahoning Avenue.

The Canfield man told police he pulled up to the night deposit drop box at the National City Bank at 8:15 p.m. Monday. He left his car running, he said, and got out of it to make the deposit.

He said he saw a man come around the rear of the building and heard him call, “Hey!”

The victim was able to make his deposit. He closed the box and ran to the front of the building, he told police. He saw that the man was wearing a Halloween mask and that he was holding a handgun, he told police.

The man got in the victim’s car and drove off. It is a 1998 gold Pontiac Grand Prix. When police were called, they found a 1990 red Oldsmobile Cutlass still running in the parking lot at the bank. It had been reported stolen by a Niles man.

Apartment vandalized

YOUNGSTOWN — A man evicted from Normandy Apartments on Canfield Road is suspected of vandalizing his former apartment, and the damage is estimated at $5,000, police said. A maintenance crew that went into the apartment Monday discovered ketchup squirted on dining room walls, frozen food spread across the dining room floor, “joke’s on you” written in chocolate sauce on the kitchen floor, feces spread on the bathroom mirror, the bedroom heating registers smashed and all carpeted floors sliced with a blade, reports show. The manager was told to photograph the vandalism and contact the city prosecutor.

Shooting at apartments

WARREN — A 27-year-old city man was in critical condition late Tuesday at Forum Health Trumbull Memorial Hospital after he was shot in the parking lot of Hampshire House Apartments on Fifth Street on Tuesday afternoon. Longino Roman of Trumbull Avenue was shot in the lower abdomen. Police are looking for a 24-year-old Warren man for the shooting.

Stranger tries to lure boy

AUSTINTOWN — An 11-year-old boy told police he was asked to get in a stranger’s car at his bus stop.

The boy told police he was standing alone at the stop at the corner of Wedgewood Drive and Paisley Avenue around 7:30 a.m. Monday.

A car stopped for a stop sign on Paisley, and the passenger opened his door. He told the boy to get in to go for a drive, the police report says.

The boy ran to his home on Wedgewood, the report says.

Probation for theft

MERCER, Pa. — A Mercer County Common Pleas Court judge has placed Bobbie Jo Doerr, 34, of Church Street, Hubbard, on two years’ probation for misdemeanor theft by deception. Court documents state that in June and July 2005, she forged 13 checks totaling $634 in various locations in Mercer County. She also used an ATM card without the owner’s permission to withdraw $480.