Driver pleads innocent to charge

Driver pleads innocent to charge

WARREN

Norman A. Miller, 24, of Main Avenue Southwest has pleaded innocent in Warren Municipal Court to a felony failure-to-comply charge. Police say he led them on a lengthy car pursuit early Sunday.

A Warren police officer first encountered Miller at West Market Street and Parkman Road when he saw Miller’s car in the southbound lane of Parkman stopped at the light and not moving, apparently because he was sleeping.

Miller’s car eventually headed south on Parkman Road, with Miller refusing to stop, despite the police car’s siren, police said. Miller eventually fled west on Palmyra Road and continued for about seven minutes, eventually stopping on Bailey Road near Hallock-Young Road in Lordstown, where he was arrested.

Result of road rage

YOUNGSTOWN

Road rage sent a local trucker to the side of the road with a smashed windshield.

According to police, a 48-year-old Austintown trucker was entering Interstate 680 from South Avenue just before 7 p.m. Monday driving an 18-wheel tanker truck when he was cut off by a man driving a Chevrolet pickup truck. The truck driver used his CB radio to contact the driver of the pickup truck, and the two men began arguing.

The trucker told police the driver of the pickup pulled over near the Wayne Street overpass and threw an unidentified object at his truck as he drove past. The object smashed the safety glass and nearly came through the windshield.

Officers have a description of the man and his car and are looking for him.

Robbery attempt

YOUNGSTOWN

Police are looking for three men who tried to rob a West Side man who was walking his dog.

According to police reports, the 48-year-old Bon Air Avenue man was walking his dog Just after midnight Tuesday when he was approached by three men dressed in black clothes, wearing ski masks and carrying guns. The men told the man he was being robbed and forced the resident into his home.

The man told police he struggled with one of the attackers and was hit on the head with a gun butt before running into a bedroom and hollering for family members to call police. The attackers ran off after realizing police had been called, reports said.

Blaze inside barn

WEST FARMINGTON

Four fire departments responded to a blaze inside a barn Monday afternoon. The Trumbull County Sheriff’s Department said a fire broke out about 4 p.m. inside a barn at 4385 Larson West Road.

Farmington, Bristol, Mesopotamia and Southington fire departments responded and were on the scene for about an hour, said a representative from the sheriff’s department.

No one was injured, and the cause is still under investigation by the Farmington Fire Department.