Youngstown man faces drug charges in Warren

Youngstown man faces drug charges in Warren

WARREN – A preliminary hearing is scheduled for April 3 in municipal court for a 22-year-old Youngstown man facing drug charges after a two-month investigation.

Bond was set Monday at $3,500 for Christopher Brooks of Oak Street Extension for charges of possession of cocaine, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. A second man taken into custody during a Friday raid on a house at 656 Delaware Ave., Bryan Sharper, 29, of Glenaven Avenue, Youngstown, was released after paying fines and costs for a prior conviction of carrying a concealed weapon. Police confiscated marijuana, crack cocaine, Ecstasy, two digital scales, $1,400 cash and several surveillance cameras and a monitor, according to Detective Melanie Gambill of the city’s narcotics unit. A loaded 9mm pistol was found under a couch cushion on which Sharper was sleeping, Gambill said.