NY man arrested after Route 11 stop ends with bomb-squad probe, highway closing

Staff Report

LISBON

Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers arrested a 25-year-old man from Brooklyn, N.Y., on Sunday evening after a traffic stop ended with the Youngstown Bomb Squad being called.

Sergiy Matirniy, 25, of Brooklyn, N.Y., was going 73 miles per hour in a 55 mph zone on state Route 11 between the Route 154 (Lisbon) and West Point exits. During the traffic stop, state patrol troopers noticed that Matirniy had electronic devices, gasoline, a long saw, machete and drug paraphernalia in his Mitsubishi Eclipse.

The bomb squad was called, and that section of state Route 11 was closed for about two hours. It reopened around 8 p.m.

After its investigation, the bomb squad said it had found nothing suspicious.

Matirniy, who was in the U.S. Navy from 2003 to 2008, is being held on charges of obstructing official business, speeding and drug paraphernalia.