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2 charged after stop

CAMPBELL

City police arrested two people on drug-trafficking charges after a traffic stop.

Arvella R. Davis, 34, of Sunshine Avenue, and Priscilla L. Jackson, 31, of South Heights Avenue, both in Youngstown, were stopped at 6:14 p.m. Sunday on Center Street for having a cracked windshield, a license-plate light that wasn’t working and having objects hanging from the rearview mirror, a police report says.

Davis, who was driving, consented to a search of his car. The officer discovered small plastic bags of suspected drugs hidden in a compartment under the console, the report says.

Police confiscated 49 bags of suspected crack cocaine, a bag of 26 Tramadol pills and two bags of suspected marijuana.

Police also found two bags of suspected crack cocaine and a bag of suspected marijuana on Davis, along with $952, the report says. They found $125 on Jackson.

Equipment theft

YOUNGSTOWN

A former Mahoning Valley business owner was sentenced Tuesday to four years in prison for stealing more than $2 million worth of heavy equipment.

According to The Vindicator’s broadcast partner, 21 WFMJ-TV, a judge in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court also ordered Robert Martin of Goshen Township to pay more than $150,000 in restitution.

Martin pleaded guilty in February to four counts of receiving stolen property after investigators discovered he had been stealing equipment for more than a decade.

Martin Desmond, an assistant county prosecutor, said what started off as something small, taking one or two pieces of equipment, grew into Martin taking more than 60 pieces of heavy equipment.

Martin apologized to his family and his victims for his crimes.

Facing burglary charge

WARREN

A 30-year-old man with addresses on Oakwood Avenue, Youngstown, and Bazetta Road, Cortland, is in Trumbull County jail without eligibility to make bond, charged with a burglary last Thursday.

David R. Hill II was arraigned on the charge Monday in Warren Municipal Court after being arrested at 10:42 a.m. Saturday at Warren G. Harding High School on a warrant charging him with burglary and a probation violation.

Information on the burglary was not available.

2 men arrested in home

WARREN

Two men were arrested inside a Homewood Avenue Southeast home and charged with burglary just after 11 a.m. Tuesday.

Justin D. Duncan, 25, of 4794 Countyline Turnpike Road in Southington and Matthew A. Heller, 25, of Streetsboro, will be arraigned in Warren Municipal Court today on one count each of burglary.

Police were called to 1017 Homewood for a burglary in progress and found the two still inside. Police also found damage to the home’s rear door and several windows.

Woman reports robbery

WARREN

Police were called to Roosevelt Street Northwest at about 2:15 p.m. Tuesday for a woman saying she’d been robbed at gunpoint.

Police searched north of there along Vernon Street Northwest and in the Warren Heights apartments on the North End.

They also searched wooded areas near the apartments, getting assistance from a police dog, but called off the search around 3:30 p.m. They were looking for a bald, black male wearing a dark blue overcoat.

Theft charge dropped

WARREN

A misdemeanor theft charge against Dennis J. Griffing, a Warren operations department employee who admitted stealing 15 to 20 newspapers per day from Warren vending boxes for more than a year, has been dropped.

Griffing appeared in Warren Municipal Court, where Judge Terry Ivanchak ordered Griffing to pay $2,235 in restitution. The charge was dropped because he was willing to pay restitution and attended a theft diversion program, court officials said.

Griffing, 53, of North Street Northwest, brother of Warren Auditor David Griffing, was caught taking the newspapers by a police investigator who conducted surveillance on him as he left for work in April.

Griffing said he took the newspapers to the operations department to share with co-workers.

Beaten outside of bar

NILES

A woman was taken by ambulance to St. Elizabeth Health Center for treatment after being beaten at a 631 Vienna Ave. tavern early Saturday.

Police were called to the tavern at 12:52 a.m. and found a woman on the ground outside, bleeding heavily from her face.

She was crying and appeared to be highly intoxicated, saying she was assaulted by two females. A male friend said he found her but didn’t know what happened.

The owner of Tommy Dog’s tavern offered to review its video to see if it shows what happened.

Council meets today

STRUTHERS

Struthers City Council will meet today in council caucus Room 11 at the municipal building, 6 Elm St. The finance and legislation committee will meet at 6:15 p.m., parks and recreation committee at 6:45, and annexation, zoning and industrial business committee at 7 p.m.

Warren SOUP event

WARREN

Warren SOUP will have its next microfunding event from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday at the Movement, 480 E. Market St. The goal is to provide money for creative local projects that will have a positive impact on Warren. Free parking is available across Market Street from The Movement.

Warren SOUP is a public dinner of soup, salad and bread for $5 (no tickets needed; first come, first served).

Diners hear presentations from no more than four local groups seeking funding and will be able to ask questions before voting for their favorite project.

The winner will be announced at the end of the evening, and they will receive the money raised from that night’s event.

To apply to present your project, contact Sheila Calko at 330-881-7698.