Police: Man found on street had drugs

Police: Man found on street had drugs

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A man found in the middle of a South Side street by a newspaper carrier about 4:20 a.m. Sunday had a dose of heroin on him, police reports said.

Police were called to Warren Avenue and Volney Road for a possible corpse and found 42-year-old Jonathan Wilson in the middle of the street lying in a puddle of vomit and breathing raggedly. An ambulance was called, and when Wilson was searched before he was placed inside, an officer found an individual dose of heroin in a pack of cigarettes he was carrying.

He was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center with a police hold when he was released to be taken to the Mahoning County jail for the charge of possession of heroin, reports said.

Woman faces charges

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A 25-year-old woman was arrested on drug charges about 1:40 a.m. Sunday after police found a bag she was holding had 16 bags of marijuana inside.

Christin Marie Martin was a passenger in a car pulled over in the 2800 block of Market Street for loud music. Reports said officers could smell marijuana in the car and saw Martin trying to hide a bag. When the officer asked for the bag, she gave it to him, and when he looked inside, he found the marijuana, reports said.

Another passenger, Kevin M. Teague, 21, was arrested on a warrant, and the driver, Calvin Martin, 22, was cited for loud music, reports said.

Teague and Christin Martin were taken to the Mahoning County jail, reports said.

Assault charges

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A South Side woman was arrested on a charge of felonious assault, and a 14-year-old boy was cited for assault after police said the two hit each other about 5:30 p.m. Friday on a South Side street.

Police were called to Mabel Avenue for a report of a woman with a baseball bat. The juvenile told police he was riding his bike when the woman pulled up in her car and yelled an obscenity at him. The boy then punched her in the face, reports said.

Stephanie Brown, 32, then hit the boy in the leg with a bat, reports said. The boy was cited for assault because he admitted hitting Brown and was released to his mother, reports said. Brown was arrested on a charge of felonious assault and taken to the Mahoning County jail. She told police the boy’s family had been harassing her all summer.