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Suspect waives extradition, faces homicide charges
By jeanne starmack
youngstown
A man who is charged in the death of a Sharon, Pa., woman and was caught in Youngstown waived extradition and will return soon to Mercer County.
Anthony S. Argenziano, 19, of Pitt Street in Sharon appeared in Mahoning County Common Pleas court Monday afternoon. He will not fight extradition, and Magistrate Timothy Welsh ordered Pennsylvania authorities to pick him up at the Mahoning County jail within three days.
Tracey Goga, 42, was found stabbed in her apartment at 322 E. State St., said Sharon Police Chief Mike Menster.
Menster said her family had not heard from her in days, so her father went to her apartment to check on her. He found her dead from multiple stab wounds.
“We think she was killed between 12 a.m. and 4 a.m. Thursday,” said Menster, who added she was found in her living room.
He said she was taken to Erie, Pa., for an autopsy which revealed between 30 and 35 stab wounds to her neck and torso.
He said that through evidence collection and interviews, police gained probable cause to issue a warrant for Argenziano.
Police were told he had bought a bus ticket to New York, N.Y., and they traced him to the Greyhound Bus Station in Youngstown.
The Northern Ohio Violent Fugitives Task Force and Youngstown Police arrested him.
Menster said police can’t say what the relationship between Argenziano and Goga was. “They were acquaintances. He was frequently at her apartment,” he said.
He said Argenziano stole Goga’s van after the killing, abandoning it at North Myers and Linden streets in Sharon.
“We have a robbery there,” Menster said. “Was that motive? We don’t know.”
Contributor: Staff writer Peter H. Milliken