Metro digest

Angels receives funds

YOUNGSTOWN — The Home Savings Charitable Foundation has donated $7,000 to Angels for Animals to purchase medical equipment for strays and help fund a program.

Angels for Animals was given the funds to assist in the farm and cleanup programs and to purchase intravenous infusion equipment.

The farm program is an agreement between the charity and farm owners which offers half-price spay or neuter surgeries to control cat population. The agreement is made with the promise the farm owners will provide the surgery to every cat on their property, including future animals. The cleanup program is similar, but is a one-time offer for people with 10 or more cats.

The charity often takes in animals with unknown medical histories, and the intravenous fluids enable the best way to sustain the animals while options are evaluated.

Marijuana destroyed

WARREN — The Trumbull Ashtabula Group Law Enforcement Task Force on Monday destroyed the 274 marijuana plants it had seized Friday from locations in Hartford and Brookfield townships.

Jeff Orr, commander of TAG, said it is about the fourth time this year that marijuana plants have been found using a helicopter, Orr said. Previous efforts have netted about 200, 90 and 70 plants. Each plant has a street value of about $1,000.

Most of the time the plants are located in a cornfield, and the farmer doesn’t know the plants are there, Orr said, explaining that no charges have been filed in the most recent drug find.

Typically the pot grower removes a few corn plants and replaces them with marijuana, which grows to a similar height as the corn, Orr said.

Man jumps from bridge

AUSTINTOWN— A man apparently jumped from a bridge over state Route 11, but his injuries were not life-threatening, according to a police report. Traffic stopped on the southbound lane of Route 11 near the Kirk Road bridge Sunday morning when drivers saw a man fall from the bridge and onto the highway. The man, witnesses said, was crossing the bridge on the outside of a safety fence before he fell.

No cars struck the man after he fell, but he did have a visible head injury. He was taken by ambulance to St. Elizabeth hospital, where he was listed as stable. Police ruled the event an attempted suicide after speaking with family members, according to the report.

Warren man in custody

WARREN — A city man accused of getting into an ex-girlfriend’s car last week, telling her not to testify against him at a court hearing and cutting her face by hitting her with the butt of a handgun, is in custody without eligibility to make bond.

Alfred Milender Jr., 37, of Montgomery Avenue Northwest, was arrested at Warren police headquarters Sunday morning and placed in Trumbull County jail.

On Monday, he pleaded innocent in Warren Municipal Court to felonious assault, abduction and theft of a motor vehicle. He was ordered held in jail without bond. Milender reportedly got into the Cortland woman’s car at the intersection of Dunstan Drive and Mahoning Avenue at 5:40 p.m. Wednesday and told her not to testify against him at a domestic violence hearing. The woman said she eventually escaped from the vehicle, and Milender drove away in the vehicle.