Metro digest

Teen mentoring program

WARREN — YWCA Warren has received $20,000 from the Ridgecliff Foundation for the Teaching, Educating, Advising, Mentoring Program. T.E.A.M. trains Warren City School students in grades 8-12 as mentors to work with at-risk fourth-grade students at Jefferson, Lincoln, and McGuffey K-8 schools. Entering its fifth year, the T.E.A.M. Mentoring Program pairs the fourth-graders with a Warren G. Harding High School senior mentor or an 8th-grade junior mentor, who then meet weekly to work on a variety of subjects. The program uses district teachers to lead the mentors in providing academic intervention to the fourth-graders. Community Solutions Association provides programming to build self-esteem and positive refusal skills surrounding substance use. District-endorsed educational field trips complement the fourth-grade curriculum content standards for all program participants.

Computer case pre-trial

AUSTINTOWN — A pretrial hearing is set for 1 p.m. Oct. 19 for a man accused of stealing computers from customers who expected them to be fixed. Robert R. Santos, 30, of Boardman, was arraigned in Mahoning County court Wednesday on 10 counts of felony theft. Austintown Township police arrested Santos on allegations of computer thefts at his business, Bits, Bytes & Pieces, 5620 Mahoning Ave. Several customers complained to police that they took computers to the business for repair but never saw them again or had them returned with missing components, according to reports. Police searched the business and Santos’ home but did not find the missing computers, Detective Sgt. Kathy Dina said.

Parent Night in Struthers

STRUTHERS — Title I Parent Night at Struthers Elementary School is set for 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. The program will include information about the Title I program and a presentation by Mike O’Malley, storyteller.

East Side robbery

YOUNGSTOWN — Jermaine Watson, 31, of 338 South Truesdale Ave., was arrested Friday and charged with aggravated robbery after two Cleveland men said he robbed them at gunpoint inside a van around 12:40 p.m. The men said they went to a female’s home on the East Side to look at cars, and a man, later identified as Watson, got into a van with them. She got out near Overland Avenue and Cleveland Street, and the man pointed a gun at each Cleveland man and demanded money. One of the men handed over about $150 in cash before both were ordered out of the van. Youngstown police later arrested Watson on Ayers Street.