Baseball-bat attack

Baseball-bat attack

YOUNGSTOWN

Police are investigating a baseball-bat attack on the city’s South Side that resulted in a minor injury to a 1-year-old boy.

According to police, the baby was in a car driven by his 27-year-old mother at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday in the area of Hillman Street and Philadelphia Avenue when a purple Honda containing two women pulled up alongside the car. Police said the women got out of the car with baseball bats and smashed the back window and back door window of the car carrying the baby.

Fragments of glass struck the child, causing injury to his neck, chest and head. He was treated at Forum Health Northside Medical Center. The mother told police the assault is over her pressing charges on the suspects for an earlier incident. Names were given to police, but no arrests have been made.

Identity fraud

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A Market Street man is charged with tampering with records and identity fraud, accused of using a fake Social Security card to try to get license plates. Brian Zindi, 24, was in the Mahoning County jail. Police were called about 4 p.m. Wednesday to the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles office on Southwestern Run on a report of a man using a fraudulent Social Security card.

Zindi, who initially said his name was Zindi Brian, told police he knew the card was fake, a police report said. He also told police that he had been using the name Zindi Brian since 2003, the report said. An agent from federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement found that Zindi, a native of Zimbabwe, had entered the United States in 2003 through New York and that he isn’t a valid U.S. resident. A detainer for immigration was placed on Zindi, the report said.

Robbery sentence

WARREN

Shedrick D. Brogdon, 20, of Fifth Street Southwest, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for participating in three of several West Side armed robberies last July. Brogdon pleaded guilty in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court to two counts of aggravated robbery and one count of aggravated burglary.

The charges stemmed from a July 27 armed robbery of the Red and White Store on West Market Street and the July 28 armed robbery of Ianazone’s Pizza on Southern Boulevard. In both cases, four to five men entered the store with guns.

The aggravated burglary stemmed from Brogdon’s and another man’s breaking into an apartment on Fifth Street Southwest on July 24 while carrying guns. Two people were inside. Nothing was taken. Warren police investigated 16 armed robberies in July, many of them at businesses on the West Side.

Probation sentence

WARREN

Imad M. Elsayed, convicted on two counts of gross sexual imposition for sexually assaulting young women at Big Daddy’s Drive Thru in Howland, was sentenced to two years’ probation.

Elsayed, 45, of Deer Creek Court, Austintown, also must obtain a mental- health assessment and follow all recommendations for treatment. He also is ordered to have no job, including his present one, in which he has contact with young females, Judge John M. Stuard of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court ordered.

Elsayed will be classified a Tier-1 sex offender. In March 2009, Elsayed reached through the window of the car of a 19-year-old Cortland woman at the Niles-Cortland Road business and groped her, police said. In February 2009, Elsayed sexually assaulted a 19-year-old Vienna woman in the office of the business, police said.