Man charged with carrying concealed weapon in Warren

Staff report

WARREN

Police charged a 26-year-old man with carrying a concealed weapon Tuesday afternoon near where a 20-year-old man had been shot inside a car that morning.

Anthony L. Dukes Jr., 26, of Tiki Lane in Lancaster and Burton Street in Warren, was taken to the Trumbull County jail after police determined that Dukes had tossed away a pistol on Oak Knoll Avenue Southeast while running from police at 2:30 p.m.

He is in the Trumbull County jail in lieu of $100,000 bond after an arraignment Wednesday in Warren Municipal Court. An innocent plea was entered for him.

Plainclothes officers with the Street Crimes Unit questioned Dukes because he was standing in the street, and Dukes fled on foot, but officers took him into custody and found the weapon in the area where he had run, police said.

The incident happened in the 1100 block of Oak Knoll near where a 20-year-old man suffered a gunshot wound to the hip at 5:10 a.m. Tuesday. A police spokesman said investigators had no evidence Dukes was tied to the shooting.

The wounded man and an 18-year-old man were listening to music and smoking in the driveway of a house when the gunshots were fired at them, they told police. The victim’s condition was not available.

The shots left bullet holes in their car and damaged the house, police said.

Another incident involving gunfire in the same neighborhood was reported at 4 p.m. Tuesday when two males were seen running from the 1600 block of Youngstown Road, about two blocks east of Oak Knoll, after gunshots were heard.

Officers found three bullet holes in a house where nobody lives but has a car wash in the back. Six shell casings were found in the front yard, but no one was injured.