Man also wanted in robberies

By Ed Runyan

runyan@vindy.com

warren

Adam Carson, arrested Tuesday after a two-hour standoff on Homestead Avenue in Youngstown, was due in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court Wednesday to be sentenced on a cocaine-possession charge.

Instead, he was taken Wednesday to Ashtabula County Western Division Court in Geneva to answer to two counts of felony robbery related to two recent Ashtabula County bank robberies.

Carson’s sentencing in Trumbull County will be reset for a later date because he did not appear for the Trumbull County hearing Wednesday.

Carson, 29, was living on Aspen Drive Northwest in Champion at the time of his arrest by Warren police April 17, 2011, on the drug charge.

Carson, the son of Tony Carson Jr., who formerly worked for Trumbull County commissioners as county administrator, was sentenced to two years in prison in 2006 after he pleaded guilty to robbing the First Place Bank in the Elm Road Plaza in July 2006.

At the time of Adam Carson’s arrest in Youngs-town Tuesday, authorities said he was wanted in two Ashtabula County bank robberies.

The Ashtabula Star Beacon newspaper reported Wednesday that Carson was charged in Ashtabula County with robbing the Andover Bank on state Route 45 in Austinburg April 28 and the Huntington Bank branch on state Route 322 in Orwell on Monday afternoon.

In the Orwell robbery, a man entered the bank at 4:30 p.m. and handed the teller a note demanding cash. He then fled in a car. He didn’t produce a weapon, the Star Beacon reported.

A surveillance photo obtained from the bank and circulated among law- enforcement agencies drew a hit from officers in Mahoning County, the newspaper reported.

A man with the same physical description and method of operation robbed the Andover bank in Austinburg shortly before closing on April 28, the Star Beacon reported.

Attempts to obtain information about the bank robberies from the Ashtabula County Sheriff’s Office Tuesday and Wednesday were not successful.