Tip nets guns; 2 men are arrested

STAFF REPORT

CAMPBELL — Police recovered two guns at an apartment in the city after an anonymous caller reported gunshots from a car.

Police went to Monroe Avenue around 7 p.m. Tuesday to a parking lot next to the Kirwin Homes where they found a car that matched the caller’s description backed into a spot there, a police report says.

Police saw a man walking toward the car and told him to stop, but he tried to run away, the report says.

Police chased him to the door of an apartment on Monroe and detained him there. He later was identified as Dante Patton, 23, of Parkway Street in Campbell.

While officers were pulling him out of the rear door of the apartment, another man ran out the front door. Officers chased him to the door of another apartment on Jean Street.

He later was identified as Jeffery Howell, 28, of Early Road in Youngstown.

Howell had the keys to the car found in the lot, police said. The car was towed.

Police spoke to the woman who lives at the Monroe apartment, and she told them she didn’t give the men permission to be there. Her cousin had let them in, she said.

She gave police permission to search her apartment, and they recovered a loaded .38 Taurus revolver under a chair and a Smith and Wesson 357-Magnum revolver under the couch. The resident told police she did not know they were there. Patton and Howell were charged with criminal trespass and obstructing official business.

Patton was released on $2,225 bond and turned over to Struthers police for a warrant out of their department.

Howell is in the city jail in lieu of bond. Both are to appear at Campbell Municipal Court on Friday morning.