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Metro digest || Operation Christmas Child
Operation Xmas Child
NILES
Operation Christmas Child Northeast Ohio will have a community kickoff to ramp up National Collection Week. The event will be in the Eastwood Mall Community Room in the Dillard’s concourse from 10 a.m. to noon today.
Operation Christmas Child, a project of international Christian relief and evangelism organization Samaritan’s Purse, has collected and delivered more than 77 million shoebox gifts to hurting kids in some 130 countries since 1993.
Machete standoff
AUSTINTOWN
Two men were hospitalized Friday night after a police standoff with a machete-wielding man at 5050 Kirk Road.
Police responded about 7 p.m. to the house, which is just east of state Route 11.
Lt. Emil Grahovac, the officer in charge of the scene, did not return a call Friday seeking information on how seriously the men were hurt.
On Dec. 30, 2009, police were called to the same address for a 31-year-old man who held police at bay for an hour after telling them he was armed inside the home.
Pharmacist hearing
YOUNGSTOWN
A pretrial hearing for Boardman Pharmacist Gary Evankovich conducted Friday was continued until Oct. 27 at 10 a.m. before Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Lou A. D’Apolito.
Evankovich, 54, owner of North Lima and Bel-Park pharmacies, was charged in a long-distance Internet prescription scheme with alleged offenses occurring in 2005 and 2006.
Judge D’Apolito dismissed the 24-count indictment, but the 7th District Court of Appeals ruled the judge erred and returned the case to him for trial.
Burglar sentenced
YOUNGSTOWN
Nicholas Calloway, 30, of Youngstown was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for committing several daytime burglaries in Boardman, Campbell and Youngstown in 2009.
Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge R. Scott Kirchbaum overruled Calloway’s motion to withdraw his guilty plea before sentencing him to two years each on five counts of burglary, to be served consecutively, and to a mandatory three-year parole upon his release from jail.