Autopsy needed

Autopsy needed

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Police say an autopsy is needed to determine how a young woman found on an East Side road about 11 a.m. Tuesday died.

Lt. Doug Bobovnyik of the Detective Bureau said investigators believe the woman found on Keogh Avenue on the far East Side is a 21-year-old Girard woman but he added he is waiting for the coroner to make that determination before releasing her name.

Bobovnyik said it appeared the woman was probably dumped there and she had not been dead long. He said detectives could not tell by looking at her how she died and there were no obvious signs of foul play.

Cop to get job back

WARREN

An arbitrator has ruled that Sgt. Emanuel Nites, who was fired in December from his job at the Warren Police Department for being untruthful regarding his participation in a fantasy-football draft while on duty, will get his job back but with no back pay.

Nites was suspended one day without pay in December 2012 after an internal-affairs investigation concluded that Nites attended the draft party while on the clock. A few days later, Police Chief Tim Bowers fired Nites after new information indicated that Nites had lied while describing his participation in the draft and that he had spent two hours or more there and failed to respond to a call for service.

Nites will remain a sergeant and will have no loss of seniority.

Mayoral debate set

YOUNGSTOWN

The 7th Ward Citizens Coalition will host the first public Youngstown mayoral debate at 7 p.m. Thursday at the D.D. and Velma Davis Education & Visitor Center at Mill Creek MetroPark’s Fellows Riverside Garden.

Democrat John McNally IV and DeMaine Kitchen, an independent, have committed to the debate. Also invited are Frank Bellamy and John M. Crea, both independents. The participants will be asked questions by a panel of local journalists with the Rev. Michael Harrison, pastor of Union Baptist Church, serving as moderator. The debate is expected to last 90 minutes.

Cops find gun in SUV

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Police investigating a menacing call about 4:30 p.m. Monday on the East Side found a loaded 9mm handgun in an SUV in the parking lot of a Kendis Circle apartment.

Kenneth Ayala-Jimenez, 25, was taken to the Mahoning County jail on charges of aggravated menacing and carrying a concealed weapon. He is expected to be arraigned in Youngstown Municipal Court today.

Officers were called to a Byron Street home where a man said Ayala-Jimenez threatened him with a gun as he was loading a moving truck. He told police where to find Ayala-Jiminez and when police got to the apartments, they saw a vehicle matching the one the victim said Ayala-Jiminez was driving. He was taken into custody, and the SUV was searched. The loaded handgun was found beneath the driver’s seat, reports said.

Center moving

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The United Methodist Community Center is moving to First Warren United Methodist Church, 309 N. Park Ave., from its current location at 760 Main Ave. SW. A celebration will start at 10 a.m. next Wednesday at the current location with UMCC’s board of directors and Mayor Doug Franklin.