Niles police charge 17-year-old boy with robbery

NILES — A 17-year-old boy with addresses on South Brockway Avenue in Youngstown and in Niles, was taken to the Trumbull County Juvenile Justice Center on Monday evening, charged with four counts of aggravated robbery, four counts of kidnapping and one count of aggravated burglary.

Police refused to release the boy’s name.

Police were called at 8:57 p.m. to Morris Avenue, where three males and a female, all approximately in their 20s, reported that the juvenile had entered the home with a gun through an unlocked door, demanded money and held the four at gunpoint.

In a scuffle that ensued, the gun went off, but no one was injured. The juvenile fled to a nearby house, where Niles police arrested him and recovered some of the stolen money but not the gun.