City man jailed on multiple charges

By John W. Goodwin Jr.

With the help of a police dog, police were able to locate the man during their search.

YOUNGSTOWN — A 37-year-old city man is in Mahoning County jail on $88,500 bond after his arrest during a police search for two men who shot a South Side resident.

Frank Jerome Hudson of Willis Street appeared Wednesday before Judge Robert P. Milich of Youngstown Municipal Court for arraignment on charges of carrying a concealed weapon, resisting arrest and illegal possession of a weapon.

Judge Milich set bond and ordered Hudson to remain on monitored house arrest if he is released.

Prosecutors, during the arraignment, listed several charges in Hudson’s history including assault, drug charges and carrying a concealed weapon.

Police were in the 300 block of Ravenwood Avenue investigating a shooting that had taken place on the street at noon Tuesday. They learned that two people were in the Ravenwood area in a black sport-utility vehicle bragging about the shooting.

Police have not said Hudson is a suspect in that shooting.

Hudson was spotted by police as a passenger in a black SUV with another man driving. Reports say officers began following the car and noticed the two men inside making various movements, with Hudson opening and closing the passenger door several times.

Hudson eventually jumped out of the car, police said, pulling out a handgun as he disappeared, running around the rear of a house in the Lucius Avenue area.

A police dog from Struthers began looking for Hudson and immediately found the gun he is believed to have been carrying. It was behind a house in the 500 block of East Boston. Hudson was found by the same dog a short distance away in the 500 block of East Lucius.

The vehicle’s 28-year-old driver later told police Hudson was the passenger. According to the police report, the driver was a person of interest, but he was not charged.

The shooting that officers were investigating sent one man to the hospital and left several others in a Ravenwood home shaken.

Officers were sent to the home in the 300 block of Ravenwood just after noon Tuesday. Officers were immediately approached by a young boy who said his father had been shot and was inside the house.

Officers found Joseph McClendon, 62, shot several times. He was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center for treatment.

Witnesses inside the house told officers that two men, one carrying a handgun and the other an assault rifle, came into the home. Witnesses said the man carrying the rifle shot McClendon while the other man held a gun on the other occupants of the home.

jgoodwin@vindy.com