Female student arrested for punching officer

YOUNGSTOWN — An 18-year-old student is facing assault charges after striking a police officer during an altercation with another student.

According to police reports, Ayesha Cowan of Brooklyn Avenue was involved in a fight with a male student during the school day Thursday at the Odyssey School on Commonwealth Avenue. School officials and police attempted to intervene in the fight. The girl, according to reports, broke free and went after the boy again.

After being restrained a second time and being escorted to a “time-out room,” reports said, the girl broke free “and with aim and intent punched this officer in the groin.” She was taken to county jail on an assault charge.