METRO DIGEST || Fire extinguished

Fire extinguished

GIRARD

City firefighters extinguished a fire at a metal scrap yard Thursday afternoon. Fire Chief Kenneth Bornemiss said crews were called to Interstate Shredding, 27 Furnace Lane, at 4:03 p.m. . Two engines and a ladder truck responded, and crews had the fire under control by 5:30 p.m. Liberty Fire Department was on stand-by, if needed. Bornemiss said while a crane was moving a pile of crushed cars, a spark started the fire when it hit the gas tank of one the cars. Employees assisted in fighting the blaze, including one who used the crane to move cars out of the way for crews, the chief said. There were no injuries. Loss of scrap metal was estimated at $25,000.

Copper wire stolen

YOUNGSTOWN

Police reports say about 300 feet of copper insulating wire was taken from an Ohio Works Drive construction site sometime between 6:30 Tuesday and 8 a.m. Wednesday. Officers were called to a building site at 1053 Ohio Works Drive at about 8:45 a.m. Wednesday where a supervisor said he discovered the wire gone when he showed up for work. The value of the wire is almost $2,000, reports said.

Assault reported

WARREN

A 30-year-old Warren man was treated at ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital for a head wound after two men came into his home on North Federle Avenue Southeast at 3:05 p.m. Wednesday and hit him with a handgun. The man said he was sweeping the kitchen floor and opened the side door, then went down from the blow to the head. He gave one suspect his wallet, and both men took his cellphone and another one and fled.

Special meeting

AUSTINTOWN

Austintown school board has called a special meeting for 8 a.m. today at the board’s central office, 700 S. Raccoon Road, to discuss employment of personnel during executive session. No action will be taken.

Parks committee

LORDSTOWN

Village Council’s parks, buildings, grounds and streets committee will meet at 9 a.m. today in council chambers.

Hearings postponed

GIRARD

A Girard Municipal Court appearance has been postponed for a man who is accused of leading police on a high-speed chase. Glenn Fulton, 50, was to appear Thursday for preliminary and pretrial hearings on charges of failing to comply with a police officer, speeding, reckless operation, left of center and following too closely. He now will appear at 9 a.m. Aug. 14.

The chase started in Vienna early Monday when someone saw a man kicking in the back door of his neighbor’s house, Vienna police reported. It ended in Youngstown.

Mental health board

YOUNGSTOWN

Mahoning County commissioners Thursday appointed Laura Lyden, Rocco DiGennaro and Austintown Police Chief Robert Gavalier to four-year terms on the county mental health board.

Boy shot in leg

YOUNGSTOWN

A male was shot in the leg Thursday but did not suffer serious wounds.

Police found a juvenile male who had run away from a group home shot once in the thigh, according to Capt. Jason Simon. Witnesses told police they heard five gunshots at Oxford Avenue and Covington Street, and police were at the shooting at 3:17 p.m. Thursday. The boy was treated at St. Elizabeth Medical Center for nonlife-threatening injuries Thursday afternoon. Officers were unable to find any evidence at the shooting scene, and the victim was unable to identify the shooter.

Charged with rape

YOUNGSTOWN

Carlton Dyer, 29, of Youngstown has been indicted on a felony rape charge. Dyer was arrested at 1 a.m. Wednesday and transported to the Mahoning County jail.

According to online court records, Edna Hector also was indicted in the rape. Police alleged she drove the victim to the apartment where the rape occurred.

A police report says officers were called to Pennsylvania Avenue and approached by a crying woman who said she had just been raped and had been able to escape. Hector then approached officers and said the victim had punched her in the face. The victim identified Dyer as the rapist.

The report says the victim was at a bus stop on Wick Avenue when Hector came up in a car and offered her a ride home. They stopped at Hector’s apartment and walked inside where Dyer tried to give her alcohol, then ordered her to undress. The victim refused, but Dyer raped her while an unknown male held her down. The victim told police Hector was laughing and watching.

The victim had two broken nails from trying to get away.

A neighbor of Dyer’s called 911 after the victim knocked on his door. The neighbor then saw Dyer and Hector looking for the victim, according to the report.

Hector told police the victim agreed to have sex with Dyer for $20 “so she could buy crack cocaine,” the report says.