Man faces two felony drug charges

YOUNGSTOWN — Two felony drug charges filed against Shon D. Rankin, 28, of Brooklyn Avenue were bound over to a Mahoning County grand jury Friday from municipal court.

A misdemeanor drug charge was dismissed. A domestic violence charge from 2006 was also dismissed because the victim cannot be located.

The drugs were found when Ohio Adult Parole Authority officers, along with members of the Street Crimes Unit, went to Rankin’s house last week to arrest him on a parole violation.

Records show Rankin is on parole in Cuyahoga County in an armed robbery case to which he pleaded guilty and was sent to prison in August 2002. He was released from prison in May 2005 and placed on three years’ probation.

On Jan. 11, a jury in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court acquitted Rankin in the shooting death of Raymond Hayes. Hayes, 32, was shot in the back outside Larry’s Lounge on Hillman Street on June 9, 2001.