Youngstown cops say two ram cars on Christmas day

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Police arrested a woman Thursday after damaging several cars in a West Side driveway with her own vehicle, and another man was cited after ramming his girlfriend’s vehicle on Interstate 680 and then running away.

Just after noon, police were called to a house on North Mayland Avenue about a fight, where they were told a woman was ramming several cars with her own vehicle. When they arrived, a woman said that her son had earlier delivered Christmas presents to her grandchild and then later the child’s mother, Fredricka Winlock, 22, of West Warren Avenue, drove to North Maryland Avenue and began throwing presents out of the window of her car.

The witness said she went to confront Winlock, and Winlock sprayed pepper spray in her face, reports said.

Reports said Winlock then got in her car and rammed a car in a driveway, which in turn was pushed into another car, setting off a chain reaction that heavily damaged three other cars and a garage. Reports also said she drove over two lawns as she left.

Winlock then drove away with someone following her, and that person told police Winlock was going to a home in the 600 block of West Warren Avenue. When police arrived and knocked on her door, she said an obscenity to them and closed the door.

Winlock was eventually arrested on charges of felonious assault and criminal damaging and taken to the Mahoning County jail. At her arraignment Friday in municipal court before Magistrate Anthony Sertick, Winlock said she had asked that the father of her child not bring the gifts to her house.

She was given a no-contact order with her child’s father and his mother. She asked about getting a restraining order, but Sertick said she needed to speak about that with her attorney. She was given a bond of $40,000.

About 2:45 p.m. Thursday, police were called to an Interstate 680 exit ramp on the West Side, where a woman said Derrick Carter, 28, of Youngstown, drove into the back of a car driven by his girlfriend, and then left his car there and ran away.

Carter was later found and taken to ValleyCare Northside Medical Center for treatment of injuries he suffered. He was then issued citations for hit-skip and driving without a license.