2 Youngstown teens charged in robbery

Staff report

Austintown

Two Youngstown teens were arrested and charged with robbing two 15-year-olds outside Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish.

The victims, a male and a female, told police they were walking near parked cars at the church’s festival, 4500 Norquest Blvd., about 11 p.m. Friday when two males approached and asked to borrow the male victim’s cell phone.

Nicholas Morales, 16, of Steel Street, and Brian Conway, 17, of North Evans- ton Avenue, are accused of brandishing small, black revolvers and demanding the victims empty their pockets. They are accused of taking two cell phones, about $15 in cash and a gold chain before running southeast on Norquest.

Morales and Conway were each charged Friday with two counts of aggravated robbery, two counts of kidnapping and one count of illegal conveyance of a weapon, all felony charges.

Conway also was charged with having weapons under disability, drug abuse and drug paraphernalia. They were taken to the Mahoning County Juvenile Justice Center.

Police spotted the two at Sav-A-Step on Mahoning Avenue in Austintown and chased them. Morales was apprehended on North Beverly Avenue, and Conway was picked up a short time later at Mahoning and Roanoke avenues.

The female victim’s cell phone and the male victim’s gold chain were found on Conway during a police search, a police report says. Police searched the area at Sav-A-Step where the suspects were first spotted and found the two handguns and the male victim’s cell phone.