City woman charged with assaulting store security guard

YOUNGSTOWN — Anita Lundy, 30, of Maplewood Avenue is in Mahoning County jail after police said she assaulted a security guard at an East Side grocery store.

According to police, a security guard at the Save-A-Lot grocery store on McCartney Road noticed two children playing in a car in the store’s parking lot just before 3:30 p.m. Tuesday. The guard told police he was worried the children would dislodge the car’s brake and the vehicle would roll forward into the store.

Reports say the guard used the store’s intercom and asked for the car owner to come to the front of the store, but he went outside to question the children after getting no response.

The guard said Lundy came out of the store as he was near the car, grabbed him by the uniform and punched him in the mouth. The guard sprayed Lundy in the face with canned tear gas. Another guard came and helped handcuff the woman.