Man to be extradited

Man to be extradited

BOARDMAN

Police say a 39-year-old township man accused of robbing a local bank should be in the custody of Boardman officers Monday.

Brandon Schmitt is accused of taking more than $5,000 from First National Bank at 7025 Market St. on Jan. 13. The bank is just north of U.S. Route 224. Schmitt was arrested at a motel in Moon Township, Pa. by U.S. Marshals and taken to Allegheny County (Pa.) Jail on Jan. 21.

Detectives said Friday that Schmitt waived his extradition hearing and that Boardman police plan to travel to Allegheny County on Monday to transport Schmitt to the township where he will appear in court on the robbery charge next week.

Suspect sought

YOUNGSTOWN

Police are looking for the man who robbed a 23-year-old South Side man at gunpoint as he left a bank near Midlothian Boulevard.

The victim walked away from the Home Savings and Loan near Midlothian just before 2 p.m. and was walking along Midlothian when he was approached by a black man with hazel eyes and long, braided hair.

The victim told police the man said, “I saw where you came from,” and demanded his belongings. The victim said the man tried to pat him down but he pushed the man away. The man reportedly then showed the victim a handgun and threatened him.

The thief took the victim’s wallet, cell phone and a bank envelope containing $2,100 but threw the wallet and cell phone down after getting the envelope.

Woman faces charges

liberty

Police charged Jennnifer Washington, 29, of the 3000 block of Northgate with failure to restrain vicious dogs after an incident about 4:15 p.m. Wednesday. Police responded to a complaint about parking in a shared area, and when they arrived, were confronted by two loose pit bulls.

One charged police, who kicked the dog twice to deter it and then used pepper spray on the dog. The owner got control of the dogs. The dogs weren’t licensed, and the owner didn’t have insurance. The dogs did have current rabies shots. Information will be forwarded to Trumbull County dog warden. Washington will appear Tuesday in Girard Municipal Court.

Beating investigated

YOUNGSTOWN

Police are investigating the beating of a 16-year-old boy by a group of teens who may have been carrying guns.

Police received a call 3:30 p.m. Thursday about a group of teenage boys beating another teenage boy on the East Side. Police checked the area of Sunshine Avenue where the fight was said to have taken place, but did not locate the group of teens or the purported victim.

A short time later a 46-year-old woman told officers her son had been jumped and beaten by about 20 male youths as he was walking home from East High School. She said one of the boys punched her son in the face with a handgun.

The teenage victim told police he and his friends were robbed a while ago by the same group that attacked him.

Drug charges

YOUNGSTOWN

A 37-year-old city man is in the Mahoning County jail after police found drugs and drug paraphernalia in his South Side home while serving a search warrant.

Police went to the Ferndale Avenue home of Edward Carter Jr. at 5 p.m. Thursday to serve a search warrant. Police found small amounts of crack cocaine in the kitchen and living room of the house and a digital scale in the living room.

Police reports say a large chunk of crack cocaine also was found in Carter’s underwear. Carter is charged with drug abuse cocaine and possession of drug paraphernalia.