Man faces drug, burglary charges

Staff report

North Jackson

A Beloit man who already was facing a drug charge from Stark County was charged with three burglary counts Tuesday, accused of entering three apartment units while trying to evade police.

Officers from the U.S. Marshals Service were trying to serve a warrant on Bryan Dilling, 41, at 35 S. Salem Warren Road, charging him with a drug offense from Stark County. Dilling was believed to be staying there with a friend.

As officers entered the apartment, Dilling fled through a back door into a common hallway and entered a neighboring apartment.

The marshals and the Jackson Police Office, with the assistance of police dogs and their handlers from the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Department and Youngstown and Liberty police departments, began a search for Dilling that lasted more than an hour.

Dilling was found in an apartment at the opposite end of the building. He went through the ceiling and moved through the building in the rafters and entered three apartments as he traveled through the building.

He was apprehended and taken to the Mahoning County jail. He also is facing three burglary charges filed by the Jackson Police Department.

While officers were in the apartment where Dilling was believed to be staying, they saw in plain view drug paraphernalia — some of which would be used to prepare methamphetamine, police said.

The occupant of the apartment, Collena Carpenter, 29, faces charges by Jackson police of felony obstructing justice and illegal assembly or possession of chemicals to manufacture drugs.

Carpenter also was lodged in the county jail.