Charged with rape

Charged with rape

CAMPBELL

City police arrested a man accused of raping a 23-year-old woman Wednesday.

According to The Vindicator’s broadcast partner, 21 WFMJ-TV, Floyd Ewell, 53, is charged with rape, kidnapping/engaging in sexual activity and carrying concealed weapons.

Ewell is in jail without bond and will appear in municipal court today.

Austintown break-ins

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Police are investigating who broke into a home on South Navarre Avenue and stole a computer and television.

The crime happened sometime between Tuesday and Wednesday.

Another theft also occurred on Burkey Road on Wednesday. Lawn equipment was taken from the garage of the home.

No arrests have been made in either case.

Driver charged in fiery Turnpike crash

NORTH JACKSON

Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers have charged a tractor-trailer driver involved in Thursday afternoon’s fiery truck crash along the Ohio Turnpike.

According to The Vindicator’s broadcast partner 21 WFMJ-TV, the patrol cited Jose Miguel Rodriguez, 39, of Youngstown for failing to drive within marked lanes.

Patrol Lt. Joe Mannion said a tractor-trailer driven by Rodriguez struck a turnpike maintenance vehicle driving along the berm of the eastbound lane.

The truck then crashed through a guardrail, and rolled over on an embankment along Reuther Drive, not far from the UAW Local 1112 union hall.

The truck, which was carrying auto parts, burst into flames, but the driver escaped from the cab. Police on the scene say the driver told them the accident occurred as he was placing a beverage next to him in the cab.

The accident shut down one eastbound lane of the turnpike for about four hours until troopers could complete their investigation.

Rodriguez was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center with minor injuries. The two maintenance workers were uninjured.

Downtown painting

YOUNGSTOWN

The city’s board of control agreed to give up to a $2,160 grant to FEIC Financial Inc., a financial and insurance firm, which is painting its building at 147 W. Federal St. The paint work will cost about $5,400. The board approved the grant at a Thursday meeting.

Cash, booze stolen from VFW post

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Someone stole cash and eight bottles of whiskey from the Veterans of Foreign Wars post at 2912 South Ave. overnight Tuesday.

Police were called about 1:20 p.m. Wednesday to the post, where it appeared that someone had kicked in a back door to get inside. Reports said the office area of the post had been ransacked, and crime lab personnel were called out to take photos and dust for fingerprint evidence.

Grand jury opts not to indict man

WARREN

A Trumbull County grand jury refused to indict a 23-year-old Warren man brought back to Warren from Detroit last December on an aggravated- robbery charge.

Taemarr L. Walker of Kenmore Avenue Southeast was accused of committing an armed robbery at the Pit Stop gas station, 1708 Youngstown Road SE, Oct. 11, 2012.

Police said a 25-year-old Warren man reported he was approached at 11 p.m. by Walker, who brandished a handgun, went through his pockets and removed $600.

Walker was sentenced to one year in prison in September 2009 in the shooting death of Ahmaze D. King, 26, of Lener Avenue Southwest, at a Lancer Court apartment on Warren’s West Side. Walker was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm in that case.

Trumbull GOP has breakfast Saturday

NILES

The Trumbull County Republican Party will have its monthly breakfast at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at Perkins Restaurant, 1953 Niles Cortland Road, near the rear entrance to the Eastwood Mall.

Akron man arrested

YOUNGSTOWN

An Akron man told police who arrested him Wednesday that he was only trying to get enough money for a bus ticket back to Akron.

Officers said they found Randall Smith, 34, inside an enclosed porch at 923 E. Philadelphia Ave. about 10:50 a.m. with a backpack full of tools.

At first Miller gave police a fake birth date because he has two pending warrants, one from Boardman for theft and another from Akron for burglary.

He was arrested on the charges of breaking and entering and possession of criminal tools and taken to Mahoning County jail.