Man faces charge of possession of drug paraphernalia

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

A man was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia Tuesday afternoon after police investigated a call of someone pointing a gun at a Canfield Road apartment on the West Side, where a man told them he had traded his mother’s car the day before for drugs.

Police were called to the 3000 block of Canfield Road about 2:45 p.m., and when they arrived they found a car with two men inside and a third, Samuel Ciancola, 46, of Youngstown, pointing at a woman on a porch.

When Ciancola saw police, he went in the car and closed the door and would not come out until ordered at gunpoint, reports said.

Ciancola and the other two men were searched but police found no weapons.

They did find a syringe on the seat where Ciancola was sitting, and he was charged on the drug-paraphernalia count.

A 34-year-old man there said he traded his mother’s car to Ciancola and his two friends without his mother’s knowing the day before for suboxone strips.

When his mother saw the car was gone, she reported it stolen.

The man said the three returned Tuesday but he did not give a reason why.

He said he never saw a weapon, but his mother told police her son told her there was a weapon.

The other two men in the car were released without being charged.