Thief grabs $450 in lottery tickets

Thief grabs $450 in lottery tickets

girard

A thief made off with $450 worth of lottery tickets Tuesday from a gas station after the clerk left the books on the counter while taking inventory.

According to a police report, a 200-count booklet of $1 High Fives and a 125-count booklet of $2 Red Hot lottery tickets were taken from Lawson Petroleum, 131 State St.

Although the tickets are deactivated, police told the gas station clerk to alert other local businesses of the theft and that they are to call the Girard police if anyone attempts to cash in one of the stolen tickets.

Police are looking for a man and a woman as possible suspects, the report said.

Heroin arrest in city

Youngstown

Youngstown police served a search warrant Wednesday at 2615 Taft Ave. and arrested Phillip Harris, 38, on a charge of possessing heroin. Harris was taken to the Mahoning County jail.

Task-force arrest

youngstown

Members of the Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force arrested Lashana Myles Tuesday on a charge of obstruction of justice after officers found Herman Posey III hiding in her 1807 Ω Pointview Ave. residence.

Posey was wanted by the Pennsylvania Department of Parole for violating parole on an aggravated assault with a weapons charge. In the report, police said that Myles initially denied them access to her residence and denied that Posey was present, but when police eventually entered, Posey was found in a bedroom.

Grants for cleanup

COLUMBUS

Ohio is to receive $16 million in a federal grants to help clean up communities ravaged by spring storms.

The grant will create 1,144 temporary jobs for dislocated workers to help raze demolished buildings, repair structures and clear streets of debris.

Staff and wire reports

Labor Secretary Hilda Solis says the money will help make Ohio whole and show them that their government stands with them as they try to repair their communities.