Trial under way for Youngstown man accused of aggravated robbery, burglary

January 19, 2011 at 5:34p.m.

YOUNGSTOWN — The jury trial is under way in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court for a 43-year-old North Side man accused of robbing a pregnant woman and her boyfriend at gunpoint in their home late last year.

Allen Tapscott, of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, is on trial in the courtroom of Judge R. Scott Krichbaum. He has been indicted on charges of aggravated robbery, aggravated burglary and illegal possession of a firearm.

Prosecutors and defense attorneys offered opening statements today to a jury of five women and seven men.

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