Man charged with trying to bring drugs into CCA facility

June 4, 2009 at 5:05p.m.

YOUNGSTOWN — A 24-year-old city man is in Mahoning County Jail on $25,000 bond after police say he tried to enter the Community Corrections Association on Market Street carrying marijuana.

Gregory Richardson, who list the Market Street CCA facility as an address, appeared today before Judge Elizabeth A. Kobly, Youngstown Municipal Court for arraignment on a drug trafficking charge.

According to police reports, Richardson was searched when he attempted to enter the CCA facility Wednesday and employees at the facility found one large bag containing suspected marijuana along with 11 smaller bags containing the suspected drug stuffed down his pants.