Charged in robbery

Charged in robbery

YOUNGSTOWN — A 31-year-old man is charged with robbery and assault after he was alleged to have attacked a West Side convenience store owner Friday afternoon. Thomas Parnell, of Milton Avenue, is being held without bond in the Mahoning County jail.

The owner of Valley Service Station, 1564 Mahoning Ave., told police a man drove up to his drive-through about 1 p.m. with a pistol on his lap, wanting some cigarettes. He was refused because he didn’t have any money. According to the police report. Parnell went into the store, threw down some pennies and was given a pack of cigarettes. He reportedly struck the owner in the face with a box of candy and threw a stapler at the storekeeper, striking him.

Parnell fled the store and got into a car, the report said. When he noticed the owner writing down the license number, he got out of the vehicle, struck the owner with a screwdriver and then threw two bricks at him, one of them striking the owner. The attacker fled, and the store owner followed him to his Milton home, which was surrounded by police before his arrest.

Youth abducted

BOARDMAN — A 17-year-old Beaver Township boy told police he was abducted and robbed of his cell phone while walking along Southern Boulevard.

The boy said he had left the Southern Park Mall and was walking toward home about 9:15 p.m. Thursday when a dark-colored Jeep containing four teenage boys pulled into a lot, ordering him into the vehicle and threatening to beat him up. The boys ordered the victim to give them his cellular phone. One of the boys went through the victim’s pockets.

The boy told police that one of the passengers in the Jeep told him they were going to his house to see if he had anything of value. The boy told them he could get money from his mother, who was baby-sitting at a neighbor’s home. When the boy went inside to get his mother, the car left.

Shell casings found

AUSTINTOWN — Police responded to the 5500 block of New Road late Thursday and found shell casings from a firearm on the road. Police received a call at just before 11 p.m. from a nearby resident, who said he heard five gunshots coming from a vehicle on New Road. No damage was found in the area.

Vote audit results

WARREN — A post-March 4 primary election audit by the Trumbull County Board of Elections showed that the board’s official election certification of results was the same as the audited results, Kelly Pallante, county elections director, said Friday.

The audit was done voluntarily at the request of the Ohio Secretary of State.

“We’re doing what we’re supposed to be doing. It’s all working fine,” Pallante said of the election results, noting the certification and audit results showed exactly the same number as the election votes.

The staff audited 7 percent of the votes for president cast by electronic voting machines or paper ballots. Of the 273 precincts, 16 precincts were randomly selected for the audit. A total 6,379 votes were hand-counted.

Menacing charge

BOARDMAN — A Forest Park Place man was arrested after a fellow tenant of the apartment building reported the man was carrying a shotgun. William J. Kuzniak, 58, is charged with menacing, a misdemeanor. He was released from the Mahoning County Jail on Friday after posting a $500 bond.

Officers went to the Kuzniak’s apartment and found a shotgun, a pellet rifle and several rounds of shotgun ammunition in a closet. “Them Devils” was written on the end of one of the shotgun shells, the report said.

Kuzniak told police that he had walked outside with the shotgun to put it in the trunk of his car.

Drug sentence

MERCER, Pa. — Harry Miller, 30, of Mercer Street, Sandy Lake, was sentenced this week in Mercer County Common Pleas Court to one to four years in prison for two counts of possession with intent to deliver, a felony.

Court documents state that Miller sold less than 3 grams (0.105 ounce) of cocaine on two occasions in 2006 in the parking lot of McKean’s ShurFine grocery, 5 W. Maple St., Sandy Lake.