Tuesday, April 19, 2011
By Ed Runyan
WARREN
Police had several busy days that included the armed robbery of a vehicle in the Trumbull Memorial Hospital parking lot, juveniles stealing another vehicle, a thwarted residential burglary, a gas-station break-in and a chase in the Trumbull Homes apartments.
A 37-year-old Hubbard man said he arrived at the hospital at 11:30 p.m. Thursday for work and was sitting in the doctor’s lot in his Cadillac Escalade when a white Grand Am pulled nearby containing three people.
A black male threatened the man with a gun, told him to get in the passenger seat, but the victim fled on foot. The car was recovered later at the corner of Moncrest Drive and Estabrook Avenue northwest.
Two boys, age 14 and 17, were released to their parents, and a third, age 16, was taken to the Trumbull County Juvenile Justice Center in Warren after they purportedly stole a car at 11 p.m. Saturday from a man on Palmyra Road Southwest.
The owner said he had jump-started his car in a driveway and was letting it run when several juveniles asked for a ride.
The victim said he went inside the house for a short time, and the car was gone when he returned.
Warren police found the car and the five juveniles at the corner of Austin Avenue and West Market Street.
The 16-year-old driver was charged with motor-vehicle theft and having no operator’s license. The others were charged with being unruly and violating curfew.
A resident of Ward Street Northwest said he scared off a burglar just before midnight Friday by getting a gun and threatening to shoot after his wife saw a person reach his arms into the open window of their bedroom.
The One-Stop Gas Mart, 858 North Park Ave., was the site of a second break-in in four days about 1:30 a.m. Monday.
Police saw that a large window had been smashed with a rock. Cigarette cartons, two handguns and cash were taken.
Leon Calbert, 18, of North Feederle Avenue Southeast, was charged with failure to comply, resisting arrest, having no driver’s license and a headlight violation after a police chase through the Trumbull Homes apartments at 1 a.m. Monday.
Police observed the vehicle driving on Rogers Avenue Southeast using only parking lights.
Officers tried to make a traffic stop on the vehicle a short time later on North Feederle Avenue, but the driver continued to drive, passing through a field near the Willard K-8 school, with the driver and an unidentified rear-seat passenger jumping out of the car while it was still moving.
An officer arrested Calbert after he slipped while trying to climb a fence near the school. A 16-year-old female still in the car was charged with being an unruly juvenile and with a curfew violation and released to her mother. The other passenger was not found.