Bullet shatters tank

Bullet shatters tank

YOUNGSTOWN

Police reports say a fish tank was shattered by a bullet about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday at a home in the 200 block of Ellenwood Avenue.

People inside the home told officers they heard about 10 gunshots from outside, and a bullet traveled through the wall and hit the tank, shattering the glass and spilling water on the floor.

Police recovered a spent bullet inside the remains of the fish tank and another in a door, reports said.

About an hour later, a woman in the 100 block of Ellenwood Avenue called police and told them she found a bullet hole in a wall and one in her bedroom. Reports said they are believed to have been from the earlier incident.

Training grant

WARREN

The Warren Fire Department has been awarded $35,140 by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency Fire Prevention & Safety program for fire-investigation training.

Nine Warren firefighters who are members of the fire investigative unit will attend specialized training sessions starting in October at several locations such as Bowling Green State University, Ashland University and the Ohio Fire Academy in Reynoldsburg, said Ken Nussle, Warren fire chief.

Fire at duplex

WARREN

Firefighters extinguished a 7:19 p.m. Wednesday blaze at a duplex at 317 Parkman Road Northwest.

A single person was in the lower duplex, and four people, including a baby, were in the upper duplex where the fire started.

The occupants all got out safely before firefighters arrived. None was injured. Two firefighters suffered minor injuries but did not require medical treatment.

Damage was about $20,000 to the building and about $10,000 to the contents. The fire resulted from an unattended pot on the stove in the upper duplex, Nussle said.

Indecency reported

CAMPBELL

Police are investigating a report of public indecency in Roosevelt Park late Wednesday morning.

A 45-year-old resident of Neoka Drive told police that she and her 13-year-old daughter were walking in the park between 11:10 and 11:30 a.m.

Near the community center, they noticed a white man who appeared to be between age 30 and 45 with brown hair and scruffy facial hair; he was wearing jeans and a Cleveland Browns jersey with the number “00” on it.

According to a report, the man then made his way over to some bushes and began to urinate on them. The report states the woman believes the man tried to expose himself on purpose to her and her daughter.

Drug charge

CAMPBELL

Police arrested a 33-year-old Blackburn Street man after they found a pill in his possession Wednesday night.

Ralph McCoy Cash will answer to a fifth-degree felony charge of drug possession in Campbell Municipal Court at 9 a.m. today.

According to a report, Cash was walking down the middle of 14th Street talking on a cellphone shortly after 11 p.m. Police told him he was going to be cited for disorderly conduct — a minor misdemeanor — for impeding the flow of traffic in the area, and Cash consented to a search.

Officers then found an oxycodone/acetaminophen pill on him, which was taken as evidence.

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