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Multiple charges filed in robbery at ATM
YOUNGSTOWN
A city man is in Mahoning County jail on a $22,500 bond after police say he tried to force two women to withdraw money from an ATM at gunpoint.
David Johnson, 26, of Clyde Street, appeared Tuesday before Magistrate Anthony Sertick of Youngstown Municipal Court for arraignment on two counts of robbery and a drug-possession charge.
Prosecutors told the magistrate Johnson already has a disorderly-conduct charge pending in the court.
Sertick ordered Johnson jailed on a $7,500 bond on each charge. Johnson is unemployed, and the magistrate ordered for him a court-appointed lawyer.
According to police reports, Johnson met a 31-year-old woman and a 26-year-old woman at a city nightclub about two weeks ago. The women told police Johnson invited them to a house in the 700 block of Alameda Avenue on the North Side.
The women told police they went to the Alameda Avenue house Sunday, and Johnson came from the dwelling with a friend and met them at their car.
The women said the other man got into the car, pulled out a gun, fired two shots into the air and handed the weapon to Johnson.
Reports say Johnson demanded money from the women. The women told police they convinced Johnson that they did not have money on them but could withdraw $500 from an ATM.
Reports say Johnson rode with the women to the ATM to get the money, but one of the women was able to contact police via cell phone and report the robbery.
Liberty police pulled over the car containing Johnson and the two women on Belmont Avenue. Youngstown police arrived shortly after Liberty police.
Reports say a bag of suspected crack cocaine fell from Johnson’s pocket as officers searched him for weapons. The suspected drugs and $360 from Johnson’s wallet were collected by police as evidence.
Police conducted a gunshot-residue test on Johnson’s hands to determine if he fired a gun. He has been in jail since Sunday.