Charges dropped

Charges dropped

YOUNGSTOWN

Charges have been dropped against two men accused in a South Side home invasion.

Harold Reeder, 29, of Marion Avenue, and Charles Scott, 27, of Roslyn Drive, were accused of entering a home on Lakeview Drive on Thursday and refusing to leave. Reports said they were armed and police initially charged two with aggravated robbery.

Prosecutors decided not to go forward with any charges Friday because of a lack of evidence.

Unauthorized calls

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David “Chip” Comstock Jr., chief of the Western Reserve Joint Fire District, says unauthorized phone solicitations are being made in the community on behalf of underprivileged children. Neither the Poland Firemen’s Association nor the fire department is conducting fundraising activities.

Shopping event

BOARDMAN

Zeta Tau Alpha alumnae will host a shopping extravaganza from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday in the Community Room of Akron Children’s Hospital Mahoning Valley, on the first floor of Building C at the Beeghly Campus, 6505 Market St.

The event will feature local vendors including Tupperware, Party Lite, Mary Kay, Avon, Tastefully Simple, Pampered Chef, Lia Sophia, Longaberger Baskets, Dove Chocolate, Beauti Control Spa Products, and more. Each vendor will donate a portion of sales to benefit Akron Children’s Hospital Mahoning Valley and the ZTA Foundation for Breast Cancer.

Federal indictment

CLEVELAND

A federal grand jury has indicted a 61-year-old Indiana man on a charge of producing and distributing obscene visual representations of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, the U.S. attorney’s office announced.

While he was an inmate at the Elkton Federal Correctional Institution in Columbiana County, William J. Platz drew and distributed to another inmate several of the obscene depictions between August 2007 and April 2008, the indictment says.

Teenagers charged

WARREN

Three city police officers converged on Mason Street Northwest within minutes of a Friday morning 911 call of an armed robbery inside a home, capturing three teenagers.

Charged with aggravated burglary are Pete Fambro, 18, of Roberts Avenue Northwest, and Carlos Jones, 18, of Ohio Avenue Northwest. The third person is a juvenile.

A Mason Street resident called 911 at 10:47 a.m., saying that two men entered the house with a gun, made her lie on the floor and demanded money. The woman described the men’s clothing and the red vehicle they left in. An officer heading north on Parkman Road saw a red vehicle containing three men heading west on Mason with another police officer behind it. They stopped the vehicle and arrested the occupants.