2 sought in robbery of delivery employee

2 sought in robbery of delivery employee

Youngstown

City police are searching for two men who robbed a pizza- shop employee during his delivery route.

The Ianazone’s Pizza employee finished delivering the food to a home on West Boston Avenue about 9:45 p.m. Thursday when he was approached by the pair.

One of the men asked the victim if he had change for a $10 before pulling out a pistol and asking what else he had on him, the report said.

The victim told the suspects he had nothing else, but one of them men felt a wad of money in the victim’s pocket. They took $280 of Ianazone’s money from the victim and fled on foot toward Market Street, the report said.

2 guilty of arson

YOUNGSTOWN

Two city men each pleaded guilty to two charges of aggravated arson Friday.

Dustin Lee Rogers, 21, of Richview Avenue, and Peter C. Sahagun, 20, of Schenley Avenue, appeared before Judge R. Scott Krichbaum in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.

Police said Rogers and Sahagun set fire to houses at 114 Hazelwood Ave. and 2714 Oakwood Ave. on Sept. 17 and Oct. 24 respectively.

Roger was arrested Nov. 5 on a charge of breaking and entering at a Manchester Avenue home. Sahagun was arrested Nov. 9 at his place of employment on Mahoning Avenue.

Sentencing for both men was set for April 19.

Woman says 2 men broke into her home

Youngstown

A Burbank Avenue woman said two men broke into her home as she slept.

The 34-year-old victim told police she was sleeping in a bedroom on the first floor with her 4-month-old child about 9:25 a.m. Thursday when she heard footsteps inside.

She said that as she got out of bed, a man in a black ski mask pointed a chrome semi-automatic gun at her and asked, “Where’s the [stuff?],” according to a police report.

The man began going through the victim’s drawers and closets. She said the second suspect stood in the kitchen.

The suspects fled out the back door empty-handed and left in a gold, older-model four-door Cadillac with a temporary license plate.

City man accused in baseball-bat attack

Youngstown

A city man is accused of attacking a woman with a baseball bat.

Kenneth Johnson, 44, of Dryden Avenue, is charged with felonious assault.

Police were called about an altercation between Johnson and a woman just before 11 p.m. Thursday, according to a report.

The 55-year-old victim, who also lived at the Dryden Avenue address, told police she and Johnson got into an argument, and he pulled her hair and hit her in the head with a miniature wooden baseball bat.

She wasn’t bleeding and refused medical attention.

Johnson said he didn’t own a bat, but police found the weapon sticking out from under a couch cushion.

Johnson was taken to Mahoning County jail and was scheduled for an arraignment in Youngstown Municipal Court next Friday.

Rapist denied parole

COLUMBUS

Marlon R. Chattman, 54, who abducted an 18-year-old girl from the Liberty Plaza parking lot in 1990 and raped her in his car, has been denied parole for at least the next five years.

Chattman is serving an indefinite sentence of 15 to 50 years in prison. Chattman moved to Youngstown in summer 1989 after leaving prison in Indiana for having raped a woman in 1973.

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