Poland teen charged with falsification

BOARDMAN — A 17-year-old Poland boy who claimed he was robbed at a Midlothian Boulevard gas station last month has been charged with falsification.

The boy told police he stopped for gasoline about 9:15 p.m. Jan. 30 at Speedway. He said as he walked around the front of his car, a man wearing a ski mask and holding a gun approached and told him to empty his pockets.

Last week, though, the boy said in a written statement that he was held up on Boston Avenue in Youngstown.

On Monday, he admitted that the first statement wasn’t true. Township police told the boy to report the robbery to city police because that’s where the crime occurred and charged him in Mahoning County Juvenile Court with falsification, a misdemeanor.

The boy was released to his mother’s custody.