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Suspect drives to police station
By ED RUNYAN
WARREN
This time, a suspect practically drove himself straight to the Warren Police Station after a felony was committed.
Patrolman Nick Carney was advised Tuesday afternoon that a man in a blue Ford Escort was traveling east on West Market Street and that he had just robbed a man at gunpoint on Oak Street Southwest.
Carney and Sgt. Greg Hoso located the car a short distance west of the station and followed it.
The driver, John Shinosky, 24, of Terre Hill Drive in Cortland, pulled into the police station parking lot, followed moments later by the robbery victim, who identified Shinosky as his assailant.
Hoso and Carney then arrested Shinosky, who pleaded innocent Wednesday in Warren Municipal Court to aggravated robbery. He is in Trumbull County jail in lieu of $20,000 bond. He returns to court July 21.
If convicted, Shinosky could get 10 years in prison.
Shinosky’s accuser, a 51-year-old Oak Street man, said he and Shinosky were drinking at his house around 4:30 p.m. when Shinosky pointed a pistol at him, hit him over the head with a 40-ounce beer bottle and demanded money.
A witness told police he saw Shinosky remove a gun from his pocket and throw it over the fence at a house on Jackson Street Southwest. Police later recovered the gun.
Carney is the same officer who helped arrest four men and a boy Monday on felony burglary and robbery charges in two separate incidents — a man and a juvenile believed to have stolen a television from an occupied house on High Street and three men accused of robbing a man in the parking lot of Blessed Sacrament Church.
Those four men pleaded innocent Wednesday in Warren Municipal Court and remain in the Trumbull County Jail.
Desmond Coker, 19, of West Park Avenue Southwest, pleaded innocent to aggravated burglary and is being held on $35,000 bond.
Dylan Frank, 18, of Downs Road in Champion; David Limbeck, 20, of Trumbull Avenue in Girard; and Kyle Ohler, 19, of U.S. Route 422 in Southington pleaded innocent to aggravated robbery and are being held on $100,000 bond.
Each man could get up to 10 years in prison if convicted.