Owner of Youngstown towing company acquitted
YOUNGSTOWN — A man whose towing company has sued the city over alleged police harassment of his company has been acquitted of obstructing official business.
Alex Bugno, owner of Bugno Towing and Recovery, 1101 E. Indianola Ave., was acquitted of that misdemeanor charge earlier this week by a jury in Youngstown Municipal Court.
During an April 11 hearing concerning his pending civil lawsuit, Bugno testified a driver at the scene of a single-car accident authorized him to tow her vehicle, but a police officer wouldn’t let him and detained him as he was leaving the scene.
Bugno acknowledged that he had not been called to the scene, but learned of the Dec. 8 crash on the police scanner.
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