Warren man gets citation for skateboarding, then is arrested

STAFF REPORT

WARREN — An 18-year-old Homewood Avenue man who makes his rounds in the downtown area on a skateboard did not heed warnings by police to stop his actions and was arrested.

Police warned Jacob R. Robinson and his friends Saturday afternoon to keep their skateboards off the Veterans Memorial Plaza on the west side of Courthouse Square.

Later that night, Robinson got into an argument with a man trying to sell lamps near the police station on South Street and fell, striking the back of his head. He was taken to Forum Health Trumbull Memorial Hospital and treated for a head injury.

At around 3:15 p.m. Thursday, Officer David Weber noticed Robinson skateboarding on Franklin Street Southeast and advised him that it was against the law.

Weber said he remembered Robinson from the incident at memorial plaza.

Robinson was asked to take a seat in Weber’s police car while the officer wrote him a traffic citation.

When Robinson was advised to leave the cruiser, he tried to snatch the citation from the officer’s hand, but struck the officer’s wrist in the process.

“I went over and grabbed him,” Weber said in a police report. “Robinson was brought back to the cruiser and arrested,” then taken to the Trumbull County Jail for fingerprinting and a mug shot.

On Friday morning, Robinson pleaded innocent to the first-degree misdemeanor assault charge and was released on 10 percent of his $1,000 bond, meaning he had to come up with $100.

He returns to court at 10:15 a.m. April 17 for a pretrial hearing on the assault charge. If convicted, he could get up to six months in jail.