Metro Digest || Assault charge

Assault charge

BOARDMAN

A 35-year-old Boardman man was arrested after another man was punched during a neighborhood block party.

Jason R. Davis of Fairfield Drive is charged with assaulting a 39-year-old Boardman resident late Saturday, according to police reports.

Witnesses told police that Davis threw a beer bottle at the man and then punched him twice on the left side of the face, reports said.

Davis was taken to Mahoning County jail and later posted $1,250 bond.

Hit with shovel

BOARDMAN

A 31-year-old township resident was arrested after two men were hit in the head with a shovel.

Russell W. Wine of Melrose Avenue faces two charges of felonious assault for the incident that occurred late Saturday.

Police said Wine walked over to a neighbor’s yard, where two men sitting on the front porch steps were drinking beer.

Wine told police that he heard the two men from inside his home, confronted them and “freely admitted to striking the pair with the shovel,” according to police records.

Wine posted $24,000 bond and will be arraigned in Boardman court this morning.

Break-in, theft

BOARDMAN

Police are continuing to investigate a break-in and theft from a local business. Officers responded to a call from an employee of Access Internet Care, 5965 South Ave., on Friday.

Police said that a person entered through the roof’s ventilation system and exited through a rear door, stealing about $7,500 and a 42-inch TV.

Sexual battery case

WARREN

James G. Binion, 45, of Hubbard was sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday after pleading guilty to committing sexual battery against a 15-year-old girl in early 2009.

Binion was indicted on two counts of rape and was scheduled to go on trial Monday before Judge W. Wyatt McKay of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court. His guilty plea avoided the trial.

Binion got the maximum prison term allowed for the two third-degree felonies. Part of his sentence is that he must register in person as a sex offender in his county of residence every 90 days for the rest of his life, said Diane Barber, an assistant Trumbull County prosecutor.

Binion was sentenced to a year in prison in 2002 after being convicted in Trumbull County of four counts of gross sexual imposition, which required him to register as a sexually oriented offender.

In July 2009, Binion was indicted for failing to notify the Trumbull County Sheriff’s Office of his change of address and was sentenced to 18 months in prison.

Reported carjacking

WARREN

A 40-year-old city man said a man stole his car at knifepoint at 4:30 a.m. Saturday on East Market Street.

The victim said he was heading east on East Market Street, preparing to turn south onto Logan Avenue when a man walking along Market opened the victim’s car door, held out a knife and ordered the victim to give him the car, a maroon 2004 Chevrolet Impala.

The driver said he jumped out of the car while it was still moving, and the thief got in and drove away. The thief was described as a black man, 5 feet 9 inches tall, weighing 250 pounds and wearing a black hoodie.

Reported vandalism

WARREN

A 47-year-old Laird Avenue Northeast man reported that his live-in girlfriend painted “All-American Cheater” on his work van about 3 a.m. Saturday after they had an argument.

The man said he didn’t discover the writing on the passenger side of the van until 9 a.m. Saturday.

Women injured in fight

WARREN

A 19-year-old Warren Township woman said she was stabbed about 10 p.m. Sunday on Lane Drive Southwest in the Highland Homes area during a fight with a group of females. The woman suffered a small laceration on her lower arm.

A 25-year-old city woman said she also was assaulted, suffering scratches on both arms and her left eye. Both women refused medical treatment.

Police said the women are part of two groups of females that have been involved in several physical altercations in recent months.

Circle K robbery

WARREN

An employee of Circle K, 1361 North Leavitt Road, said a young black male wearing a mask and carrying a pistol robbed the store about 1:30 a.m. Monday.

The woman said the individual slipped into the store while she was cleaning, took money from the register and then told her to follow him into the parking lot in back of an adjacent pharmacy. After the woman got on the ground, the robber got money from the employee’s pockets and fled on foot. Police obtained video and audio surveillance footage.