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Drive-through robbery

YOUNGSTOWN

Police are looking for the person responsible for robbing an elderly Austintown man at the drive-up window of a West Side fast-food restaurant.

According to police, the man walked up to the window at the restaurant late Tuesday night to order his food when a man in a car ahead of him in the line got out of his car and took the man’s wallet. The thief ran off on foot after someone else drove the car away, police said.

Shots fired into home

YOUNGSTOWN

Police are trying to determine who fired several shots into an East Side home containing a woman and children.

A Ridge Avenue woman told police she was home sleeping with her children late Tuesday evening when she was awakened by gunfire. The woman later realized at least five shots from a handgun had been fired at her home, hitting a storm door, glass window and a railing.

The woman told police she believes the shots were fired by two men she had previously confronted about visiting one of her daughters.

CPR training course

Boardman

The Mahoning Valley chapter of American Red Cross is offering CPR training. The course is from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday at the Boardman training facility, 8381 Market St.

Participants will learn how to perform CPR on adults, children and infants, how to rescue choking victims, rescue breathing for babies and the signs and symptoms of life-threatening emergencies.

The cost of the program is $55, and participants will receive American Red Cross certification in CPR upon completion.

For more information, call 330-726-6063 or visit www.mahoning.redcross.org.

Carjacking plea

WARREN

An 18-year-old Hickory Court man is looking at a seven-year prison sentence after pleading guilty Wednesday in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court to committing two carjackings in Hubbard in December.

Lilton Morris pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated robbery, both with specifications that he used a firearm, and one count of failing to comply with the order of a police officer.

The prosecution and defense agreed to a seven-year prison term, said Chris Becker, an assistant county prosecutor.

Hubbard police said the carjackings occurred Dec. 11 and 13 on Westview Avenue in Hubbard and involved a gun, but no one was hurt. The Mahoning Valley Violent Crimes Task Force arrested Morris in early January at a home on Early Road in Youngstown, where he was living. Morris will be sentenced later.

Baseball attack

WARREN

A 36-year-old Oak Street Southwest man pleaded innocent Tuesday in Warren Municipal Court to three counts of felonious assault in a baseball attack on three males. Police say Ernest Van Horn Jr, 36, hit the three, ages 16, 19 and 21, with a baseball bat Sunday night in Packard Park on Mahoning Avenue.

Van Horn returns to court Sept. 30 for a preliminary hearing. Bond was set at $5,000.

Police said the three males were injured and taken to St. Joseph Health Center for treatment in the 9:40 p.m. incident behind W.D. Packard Music Hall. All three were released Monday. They knew their attacker, police said. Police arrested Van Horn on Oak Street.

Speed Check robbery

WARREN

Alfred Jackson, 55, of Jefferson Street Southwest, is jailed after pleading innocent Tuesday in Warren Municipal Court to breaking and entering. Police say he robbed a Parkman Road Northwest Speed Check Food Mart early Tuesday, and they identified him from the store videotape. The store owner reported that someone broke into the business by pushing in a drive-through window around 1 a.m. Tuesday and took about 117 packs of cigarettes. A Warren police officer arrested Jackson based on the videotape around 2:30 a.m. at the intersection of North Park Avenue and Porter Street as he was riding a bicycle.

Bond was set at $10,000.