Trespass, drug charges

Trespass, drug charges

YOUNGSTOWN — A Girard man who had just been discharged from Northside Medical Center for drug treatment was arrested after paramedics reported someone stole morphine and a syringe from an ambulance parked outside the hospital.

Kevin McGinnis, 29, of Olive Street, was charged with criminal trespass and theft of dangerous drugs. He was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center for treatment after jail officials said he appeared under the influence of drugs.

The paramedics found someone rifling through the ambulance about 12:20 p.m. Saturday. The man fled into a restroom inside the hospital, a security guard reported. The guard detained McGinnis when he came out of the restroom, and the guard found empty vials and a syringe in the wastebasket, police said. McGinnis had hospital discharge papers in his pocket.

Apartment break-in

YOUNGSTOWN — A 21-year-old Martin Luther King Drive woman reported that an unidentified man broke into her apartment and dragged her about as he looked for a gun.

The woman told police that the man cut through her kitchen screen about 1 a.m. Saturday while she was sleeping. He grabbed her shoulder and pulled her around as he ransacked the apartment, reports said. The woman told police that she does not have a gun.

The man left after he told her “to tell her man that Dave sent him,” reports said. The woman provided the name of a possible person that the man was referring to.

State cuts worry libraries

WARREN — Trumbull County’s seven public libraries are joining to urge the public to contact their state legislators and Gov. Ted Strickland’s office about proposed cuts in state funding.

Library officials said the governor’s proposal would mean more than a 50 percent cut in funding for most of Ohio’s 251 public libraries.

“These cuts would make it nearly impossible for some of our local libraries to remain open,” said James Wilkins, Warren-Trumbull County Public Library director. “If passed, these cuts would be disastrous for libraries in Ohio.”

Patrick Finan, director of the McKinley Memorial Library in Niles, said, “Libraries are willing to do their fair share, but massively reducing the Public Library Fund would effectively collapse the Ohio library system.”