Local news digest

Personnel returning

VIENNA — A team of medical personnel assigned to the 910th Airlift Wing’s Medical Squadron will return home Friday after completing a medical training mission to the Dominican Republic. During its mission, the 28-member team provided family, dental and eye care for some 10,000 people during its 14-day deployment. The mission also provided training for the squadron. The 910th has its headquarters at the Youngstown Air Reserve Station.

Man faces drug charges

CANFIELD — Police arrested a city man accused of supplying anabolic steroids to local gyms.

Robert Gizzi, 34, of Pine Cone Drive, was arrested after a 10-month investigation. He is charged with two counts of drug trafficking, 14 counts of possession of a controlled substance, 10 counts of possession of a dangerous drug, five counts of possession of drug instruments, drug paraphernalia, possession of criminal tools and money laundering.

Gizzi was scheduled for an arraignment at 5 p.m. Wednesday in Mahoning County Area Court.

Canfield police said they had received information that Gizzi was supplying steroids to members of area gyms. A package of anabolic steroids mailed from Europe was intercepted by police.

Police said a search warrant carried out at Gizzi’s home produced numerous steroids, syringes, OxyContin and several other controlled substances and dangerous drugs.

Woman beaten, robbed

YOUNGSTOWN — City police are looking for the man who forced his way into a South Side woman’s apartment and beat her before taking money and leaving. The 30-year-old Ferndale Avenue woman told police she heard someone trying to open her door just after 2 a.m. Wednesday and called 911. The woman said she hung up when the man opened the door by picking the lock with a butter knife.

The woman said the 36-year-old man began beating her and smashing the food she was eating. The woman said the man has beaten her in the past, and she also noticed the imprint of a gun in his pocket.

The woman said the man emptied her purse and took $160 and her personal identification before running out of the apartment.

Sexual assault

LIBERTY — Township police are investigating the reported sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl. According to police reports, the girl, who lives in Leavittsburg, told police she was visiting her sister in the township in March when a 24-year-old male family member asked her to perform a sex act under the threat of not seeing her nieces anymore.

The girl told officers she performed the sex act, but did not tell anyone out of fear and shame. Family members noticed mood changes in the girl and began to ask questions, reports said. The family reported the situation Monday.

Siren test planned

HERMITAGE, Pa.— Hermitage Fire Department will conduct its monthly test of the city’s weather sirens at 10 a.m. today. The test will include activation of the Clark, Farrell, Sharpsville, West Middlesex, and Wheatland weather sirens. Citizens are asked to disregard the sirens during the test.

Aggregation meeting

STRUTHERS — City council’s Public Utilities Committee meets at 6:30 tonight in council caucus Room 11 with Thomas M. Bellish, president of Buckeye Energy Brokers Inc., to discuss the electric aggregation program. The ballot issue, which passed Tuesday, authorizes the city to form a governmental electric aggregate on behalf of city residents.