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Boy, 9, other juveniles and adult arrested in Campbell break-ins
CAMPBELL — An adult and five juveniles have been charged in two break-ins in the past six days.
Campbell police reported that Sentell D. Wright, 18, of Wilson Avenue has been charged with receiving stolen property and contributing to the delinquency of minors. The minors involved include a 9-year-old, a 13-year-old, a 15-year-old and two 17-year-olds.
The 9-, 13- and 15-year-olds are brothers, said Sgt. John Gulu of the Campbell Police Department. They live on Coitsville Road, according to police reports.
Gulu said Wright’s brother is the boys’ stepfather.
The first break-in occurred around 7:35 p.m. Saturday at a home on Blossom Avenue, reports say.
Gulu, who was off-duty at the time, saw one of the boys walking up Crimson Circle and knew he was not from the neighborhood, the report says.
It was the 9-year-old, the reports indicate, and he was carrying a bulky bedsheet.
When Gulu tried to approach the boy, he ran away. Gulu called the dispatch, reports say.
Gulu saw one of the 17-year-olds trying to push a motor scooter from the shed at the Blossom Avenue house. He saw that a rear window was open at the house, and the house had been ransacked.
Gulu saw the other 17-year-old, who was pulling a wagon, and the 13-year-old, who was carrying a shopping bag, walking on Blossom. He told them to stop, but they ran through a backyard, reports say.
Police found the wagon and shopping bag hidden in nearby woods. When police rounded up the boys, the nine-year-old told them where to find the bedsheet in the woods. The sheet contained a PlayStation 3 and games.
The homeowner arrived then and identified all of his belongings, which included cash and jewelry.
While the boys were being taken to the police station, they emptied more jewelry out of their pockets and tried to kick it under the front seat in the cruiser, the report said.
The 9-year-old was released to his mother, and the other three were taken to the Mahoning County Juvenile Justice Center.
They are charged with burglary, possession of criminal tools and tampering with evidence. One of the 17-year-olds is also charged with possession of drugs. Police said they found a marijuana cigarette on him.
Wright was charged with receiving stolen property Sunday when police were called because he and another man were spotted in the same neighborhood in people’s backyards.
Police found a two-way radio and jewelry on him, and he said he’d found it in the woods, the reports say. The Blossom Avenue homeowner identified the items as his.
Wright was charged with contributing to delinquency over an attempted burglary Tuesday, when a witness identified him as one of three people running from a residence on Coitsville Road where a garage door had been kicked in.
A witness told police he saw three boys run to the Coitsville Road house where the brothers live. The witness identified the 15-year-old brother from the Coitsville Road house as another one of the three he saw running from the garage door. The 15-year-old was charged with breaking and entering and taken to the Juvenile Justice Center.
Wright was arraigned Tuesday on the receiving-stolen-property charge and released on $2,500 bond. He was in the Campbell jail awaiting his arraignment on the contributing-to-delinquency charge Thursday. That arraignment was set for this morning.
Campbell police also said they arrested a fugitive at the brothers’ Coitsville road home Thursday.
Gulu said Jerbrail Grhim, 19, was arrested by police and U.S. Marshals at noon.
Grhim was wanted by Youngstown police in the brutal beating of a baby. The child, of Lucius Avenue, was beaten with a wire coat hanger, punched and held under water in a bathtub July 17.