Robber steals police paraphernalia

July 27, 2010 at 9:22p.m.

YOUNGSTOWN

A city police officer found himself to be the victim of a robbery.

Officer Barry Ervin, 53, found his car ransacked in his driveway Sunday morning, according to a report.

Ervin reported that sometime between 8 p.m. Saturday and 6:15 a.m. Sunday, someone entered the unlocked vehicle, opened the trunk from inside the car and removed a black police bag.

The bag contained various blank police forms, police handbooks, a set of handcuffs and a key that allows access to the ignition keys for a police car.