METRO DIGEST || Medication Lockbox giveaway Saturday

Electrical fire

AUSTINTOWN

Firefighters responded to an electrical fire shortly after 6 p.m. Wednesday at 3901 Claridge Drive after the home was struck by lightning.

Lt. Bob Williams said lightning caused a surge in electricity throughout the home. The surge caused a mattress, which was next to an electrical outlet, to catch fire in an upstairs room.

Williams said the fire was confined to one room and no one was injured.

Threatened with gun

BOARDMAN

A 20-year-old man told police he was the victim of an aggravated robbery when he was approached by four men who asked if he had any money, then drew a handgun and repeated the inquiry, according to police.

Police said the robbery occurred in the 4000 block of Glenwood Avenue about 11 p.m. Tuesday when the victim said he had been dropped off after work and was walking up the driveway.

The victim said he offered his shoes to the men, but the men turned and walked south, records show.

One-car accident

NEW SPRINGFIELD

An elderly man was pronounced dead after a one-vehicle accident about 2 p.m. Wednesday in Springfield Township. The man, whose identity wasn’t released by police late Wednesday, was driving a car that went off North Lima Road into a swampy marsh area just south of the Five Points intersection, said township police Chief Matthew Mohn. Mohn said it appears the man may have suffered a medical emergency or died just before the accident. The Mahoning County Coroner’s office is investigating.

Canned-food concerts

NORTH LIMA

Beaver Township Park Board is asking residents attending the weekly concerts in Woodworth Park in August to help with its canned-food drive. Canned-food items may be dropped off at the park during concerts. The free performances are from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesdays at Woodworth, which is off East Western Reserve Road, between Market Street and Southern Boulevard in Beaver Township. The remaining shows feature Vegas on Aug. 15 and Loren Coler on Aug. 22.

Lockbox giveaway

YOUNGSTOWN

Mahoning Valley businessman Mike Boccia, co-founder and chief executive of MedSafe Inc., has donated 50 medication lock boxes to Drug Free America Foundation’s campaign encouraging people to lock up their medications and keep kids safe.

Boccia donated $5,000 in MedSafes, the digital medication lock box his company manufactures, after learning of “Operation: Medication Lockbox Giveaway” and the statistics of drug abuse locally. On Saturday, select Walgreens locations in the Mahoning Valley will give away free lock boxes to the first customers with a new or transferred prescription.

For information, go online to www.LockboxGiveaway.com.