Assault case bound to grand jury

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Michael A. Jones

STAFF REPORT

WARREN — The case of a Mahoning County man accused of driving his pickup truck into a crowd of people late Sept. 23 in Warren has been bound over to a Trumbull County grand jury.

Michael A. Jones, 28, who has addresses on Dover Street in Youngstown and Compass West South in Austintown, waived a preliminary hearing in Warren Municipal Court.

Judge Thomas Gysegem bound the case over to a Trumbull County grand jury and reduced Jones’ bond to $75,000. Municipal Judge Terry Ivanchak originally set Jones’ bond at $250,000.

Jones has pleaded innocent to six counts of felonious assault.

Warren police said four women were having an argument in a parking lot of a car dealership on Youngstown-Warren Road between Woodbine and Oak Knoll avenues southeast in which one woman hit another woman with a wrench several times.

Sometime after that, Jones drove his truck into a crowd containing some of the women and other people.

Jones and two women were injured when the pickup truck hit several people and pinned them against the building at 1806 Youngstown-Warren Road, police said.

One of the women involved in the argument and one man were admitted to area hospitals for treatment.