Police seek suspect in Austintown robbery
Police seek suspect in Austintown robbery
AUSTINTOWN — Township police continue looking for the suspect in an armed robbery at Advance America earlier in the week.
Police have created a composite sketch using a description: Male, 6 feet 2 inches tall, about 200 pounds, wearing glasses, a dark hooded sweat shirt and baggy tan pants and armed with a handgun.
Police said the man entered the store on Mahoning Avenue just before 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, pointed a gun at an employee and demanded money. The cashier complied, and the suspect fled the scene with about $800 in cash.
No one was injured.
Anyone who has information is asked to call Detective Sgt. Dan Kosco at (330) 270-5111.
Florida man charged with prescription fraud
BOARDMAN — A Daytona Beach, Fla., man is charged with illegal processing of drug documents and deception to obtain a dangerous drug, accused of presenting a fraudulent prescription at a pharmacy.
An employee of the Target pharmacy, Boardman-Poland Road, told police that Kyle Vaslowski, 27, presented two prescription slips at the pharmacy about 4:45 p.m. Wednesday. He couldn’t provide identification, and pharmacy employees thought the handwriting on the prescription slip appeared suspicious, a police report said. The slip was from Daytona Beach. The employee contacted the doctor whose name was on the slip, and the doctor said she hadn’t authorized any prescriptions for Vaslowski.
He was arrested, and police found three more blank prescription slips from the same doctor in his pants pocket.
Emergency exercise
VIENNA — The Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport and the Youngstown Air Reserve Station will be conducting a joint emergency exercise beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday.
This is a tri-annual FAA requirement for commercial airports and will involve participation from the airport operations, Youngstown Air Reserve Station reservists, local responders and area hospitals. Participants will be responding to an aeronautical mass casualty scenario. The exercise is expected to last about four hours.
Angels garage sale
CANFIELD — The Angels for Animals garage sale is today through Sunday at the Canfield Fairgrounds. Here are the times:
UToday: 10 a.m. to noon, $5 admission, early bird sale; noon to 8 p.m., $1 admission.
USaturday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., $1 admission.
USunday: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., free admission, half price on most items; 3:15 to 5 p.m., $5 clearance sale. Buy a wristband for $5 or $10 and take all you want and as many trips as you want until everything is gone.
No strollers, wagons or dogs permitted in the sale buildings.
For more information, call (330) 549-1111, ext. 330, or visit www.angelsforanimals.org.