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Drug buyer hurt

YOUNGSTOWN

A city man told police he paid too much for the crack cocaine he purchased and then was assaulted when he demanded his money’s worth.

The 55-year-old Redondo Avenue man told police his drug dealer came to his home Sunday and charged him $160 for about $30 worth of crack cocaine. The man said he went to a Wirt Street address and asked for the appropriate amount of the drug but was told he could only have it if he would allow dealers to cut off his finger.

According to police reports, a dealer began cutting the man’s finger, but the man changed his mind. Reports say the dealer then took a Bowie knife and chopped at the man’s arm just above the wrist. Police noted a 21/2-inch cut on the man’s arm just above the wrist.

The man called an ambulance and was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center.

Woman reports rape

YOUNGSTOWN

An 18-year-old South Side woman told police she was pulled into a vacant home and raped while walking along East Auburndale Avenue.

The woman told police she left her East Lucius Avenue home at 10:30 p.m. Sunday and began walking the neighborhood after a fight with her father. She told police she ran into a male friend of a friend, who forced her into an abandoned home.

Police identified 15 vacant homes in the block where the attack was said to have occurred and could not determine which house the woman spoke of.

The woman was taken to St. Elizabeth Boardman campus for an examination.

Drug trafficking

campbell

A man was charged with drug trafficking after a traffic stop, Campbell police report.

Sentell Wright, 19, of Wilson Avenue was charged after the stop on Gladstone Street at 7:25 p.m. Sunday, police said.

Police said Wright didn’t have a valid driver’s license or proof of insurance with him when they asked for it after he ran a stop sign.

He consented to a search of his car, they said, and they found a plastic bag with 15 smaller bags of marijuana under the driver’s seat, the report said.

Wright was arraigned Tuesday and remained in the city jail in lieu of $500 bond.

Clemency hearing

COLUMBUS

The Ohio Parole Board will conduct a death-penalty clemency hearing for inmate Sidney Cornwell of Youngstown at 9 a.m. next Wednesday. Cornwell was convicted in the 1996 murder of 3-year-old Jessica Ballew in Youngstown. He is scheduled for execution Nov. 16.

White House interns

YOUNGSTOWN

Four Ohio students will participate in the White House Internship Program this fall, said U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio. Joseph St. George of Youngstown, Lauren Khouri of Avon, Edward Haubrich of Columbus and Ramzy Mardini of Huber Heights were selected from a large pool of applicants.

Interns work in one of several White House departments, including the Office of the First Lady and the Office of the Vice President.

St. George attends Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Khouri graduated from St. Louis University and is in law school at American University. Haubrich attends the University of Minnesota. Mardini graduated from Ohio State University and the University of Chicago.