Sales without license

Sales without license

YOUNGSTOWN

A 69-year-old North Bloomfield man has been charged with continuing to sell guns after the federal government revoked his license. David M. Toepfer, the Youngstown-based assistant U.S. attorney, recently filed an information containing that charge against Byron G. Ishman, who authorities said sold guns at his business, The Sport Shop, in North Bloomfield, long after his license was revoked in 2006. Acting on a tip they received last summer, agents of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives bought multiple guns from Ishman over a six-month period, Toepfer said. The filing of an information usually means the defendant won’t contest the charge.

Child endangering

struthers

Police charged a city woman with child endangering after a neighbor found her 3-year-old son wandering outside by himself with no socks, shoes or coat. A West Harvey Street resident called police at 7:43 p.m. Sunday to report the boy had run through her yard, and there were no adults with him. She told police she went outside and found him a few houses away. Police arrested Karen Fiorenza, 40, of West Harvey. Fiorenza posted 10 percent of a $1,000 bond and is scheduled to appear for arraignment at 9:30 a.m. Friday in Struthers Municipal Court.

Police seek robber

YOUNGSTOWN

Police are looking for the man who assaulted and robbed a 24-year-old man on the West Side. According to police, the Forestview Drive man was walking along Mahoning Avenue near Steel Street after 2 p.m. Friday when a man came from behind and hit him in the head with a blunt object. The attacker then took $200 from the man and hit him several more times. The victim was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center by family members.

Drug-sales sentence

WARREN

A judge sentenced a Citadel Drive Northeast man to five years’ probation for selling drugs out of his house, but he will forfeit his $140,000 home to the court. Joseph Jurgle, 58, was sentenced Monday in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court, where he earlier pleaded guilty to five counts of aggravated drug trafficking.

Prosecutors said Jurgle sold methadone, roxicodone and oxycodone out of the house on five dates in October and November 2008 to a confidential informant. The house is within 1,000 feet of Blessed Sacrament School on Reeves Road, prosecutors said. Judge Peter Kontos ordered that a $25,000 fine be paid out of the proceeds of the home sale.

Free film screening

YOUNGSTOWN

Grow Youngstown will sponsor a free screening of “The Living Land,” the second film in “The Real Dirt on Food” film series, at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Radius Room at the Davis Visitors Center in Mill Creek Park’s Fellows Riverside Gardens. The 30-minute film examines the movement to create more sustainable, healthful ways of growing food. The screening will be followed by a discussion led by Kathi Vrable-Bryan, administrator of the Mahoning Soil and Water Conservation District.