Suspect arrested after chase

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN — Four police departments converged on the city’s East Side to apprehend a man who fled after elbowing a Campbell police officer who spotted him squatting suspiciously behind a payday cash advance business, police said.

Patrolman Ryan Bloomer of the Campbell Police Department reported spotting the suspect, Dashawn L. Hayden, 32, of Aravesta Avenue, Boardman, squatting behind Purpose Money, 669 McCart- ney Road, Campbell, wearing all black clothing at 7:15 p.m. Friday.

On Thursday evening, a cash advance employee had called police to report someone hiding near the business, but the suspect was gone before police arrived.

As the patrolman approached, the suspect walked away, crossing McCartney Road into Youngstown after the patrolman ordered him to stop, the police report said.

When Bloomer caught up with Hayden in a drugstore parking lot and asked him why he was behind Purpose Money, Hayden reportedly said he was there to go to the bathroom.

When the patrolman asked if Hayden had any weapons on him, Hayden elbowed the patrolman, who drew his firearm, told Hayden he was under arrest and ordered him to the ground, the police report said.

Hayden then pulled out an airgun and a two-way radio and ran through Youngstown’s streets with the patrolman in pursuit. The patrolman lost sight of Hayden, the report said.

Campbell, Struthers, Youngs-town and Coitsville police converged on the scene, and a Struthers police dog followed Hayden’s scent to an open garage on Whitman Lane, where Hayden was arrested, according to the police report. Police said they recovered the air gun and walkie-talkie nearby.

Hayden was charged with assault on a police officer, resisting arrest and obstructing official business. He was jailed pending his 9 a.m. Tuesday arraignment in Campbell Municipal Court.