Police investigate report of assault

Police investigate report of assault

WARREN

Police reports said a man stormed into a home in the 1700 block of Deerfield Avenue Southwest about 9 p.m. Thursday and forced a woman into a car with him.

The homeowner told police that a man she knows kicked in her door, grabbed a woman who was hiding there, punched her, dragged her to a car and drove the victim to her home in the 900 block of Palmyra Road Southwest.

Police went to that address and found the 22-year-old victim there. The man who had taken her was not there when police arrived, reports said. She was taken to Valleycare Trumbull Memorial Hospital to be treated for undisclosed minor injuries, reports said.

Shooting probed

YOUNGSTOWN

Police today are investigating a shooting on the city’s South Side that sent one man to the hospital Friday night.

Police received a call of shots fired about 9:30 p.m. in the area of Marmion and South avenues. When they arrived, they found a car’s windows shot out and several bullet holes in the vehicle.

A man was wounded, and he was taken to the hospital by ambulance. He is in stable condition at St. Elizabeth Health Center.

Police find gun in car

WARREN

Police say they found a gun underneath the seat of a car as they were investigating a burglary call about 1 a.m. Friday in the 1100 block of Atlantic Street NE.

Reports said police were called after a home on Atlantic Street Northeast was broken into and two men were seen running through backyards toward Edgewood Avenue Northeast. Police drove over to that street and saw a car backing out of a drive in the 1000 block of Edgewood and searched it. The gun was found under the front seat, reports said.

The driver, Pierre Frazier, 22, of Maple Street Southwest, was arrested on a charge of carrying a concealed weapon and taken to the Trumbull County Jail pending his arraignment in municipal court, where he was released after posting $2,500 bond. He is due back for a preliminary hearing June 3.

Police presence increased at school

POLAND

An automated call was sent to parents of students at Poland Seminary High School about a threat that was discovered Thursday afternoon, written on a door of a boys bathroom.

School officials met with police and determined there was no imminent threat. “It wasn’t real threatening in nature,” Superintendent Don Dailey said. “It was very vague.”

The school has not been evacuated, but police presence was increased Friday at the high school, Dailey said. “We currently don’t feel it’s a credible threat,” he said.

Officials also are in the process of examining surveillance footage to see if they can find the person responsible. The culprit could be facing an inducing-panic charge, Dailey said.

Dailey said it wasn’t a bomb threat and wasn’t geared toward one or more people. “It was just a statement of time and date, and that’s about it.”