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Officer’s car robbed

YOUNGSTOWN

A Youngstown 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.

Store owner robbed

YOUNGSTOWN

Police are looking for two teenagers who robbed the 42-year-old owner of a Glenwood Avenue auto business at gunpoint Monday afternoon.

According to a police report, the shop owner said two teens left the store while he was helping another customer about 2:40 p.m. After the customer left, the two teens, both near 16, re-entered the South Side store brandishing a small, silver revolver.

They demanded cash from the register but got away with the owner’s cell phone and $40 from his wallet, police said.

Neighbor problems

YOUNGSTOWN

Police are investigating a complaint by a South Side man that a neighbor deliberately shot a firework at his daughter that injured her. The man took his 9-year-old daughter to St. Elizabeth Health Center’s Boardman Campus on Monday. He told police the incident took place at 9:30 p.m. Sunday.

The father told officers this was the second incident involving the neighbor, whom he believes is 50 and living across the street on East Boston Avenue. The father told police of a similar shooting of a firework July 5, which resulted in no injuries. No police report was filed.

The girl had bruising on her right thigh, and the father was to follow up Tuesday with investigators.

Open house planned

Youngstown

Larry Moliterno, CEO, and Rachel Hoffman, director of adult residential treatment at Meridian Community Care, will have an open house at the Women’s Center, 64 Ridge Ave., from 2 to 4 p.m. Thursday with a brief presentation at 3 p.m.

The Women’s Center offers a number of new and innovative treatment options for women seeking recovery from addiction. The public will have the opportunity to tour the newly renovated facility, meet the new program staff and learn about the center’s services. Refreshments will be served.

Suspect in robbery

WARREN

Derrek C. Binion, 33, of Linda Drive Northwest, pleaded innocent Tuesday in Warren Municipal Court to robbing the PNC Bank branch Saturday morning on Parkman Road.

Binion remains in the Trumbull County Jail in lieu of $250,000 bond. He returns to court at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday. If convicted on the charge, aggravated robbery, Binion faces up to 10 years in prison.