Man charged in confrontation with school bus driver in Liberty

LIBERTY — A Youngstown man is charged with aggravated trespass after a fight with a school bus driver.

Liberty police Capt. Richard Tisone said Cametrius Adams, 30, of St. Louis Avenue, was arrested Friday morning. He will be arraigned in Girard Municipal Court next week.

Officers were dispatched to the Oak Tree Apartments in the Hadley Road/Trumbull Avenue area at 8:35 a.m. Thursday. When they arrived, police reports say, Adams was involved in a heated discussion with the school bus driver, a 51-year-old woman from Vienna. Adams told police the woman had threatened his daughter.

Reports say the argument began when the bus driver wrote Adams up on a bus conduct report for his daughter’s not making it to the school bus stop at the designated time. Adams, the report said, took the write-up to be a threat.

Adams, according to reports, pushed his way onto the school bus and began screaming at the bus driver and “acting belligerently” while threatening to kick her teeth in. A witness told police Adams pushed her out of the way to get on the bus, saying “nobody is coming on or off this bus.”

Police went to the district bus garage to view what transpired on the bus via videotape. Reports say the driver appeared visibly shaken while arguing with Adams on the bus. Adams, reports said, could be heard clearly threatening the woman and, when told police had been called, could be heard saying “there had better be more than one.”

Police took the video as evidence.