METRO DIGEST || K-9 cruiser crash Saturday night

K-9 cruiser crash on Market Street

YOUNGSTOWN

A police spokesman said there were no injuries after a cruiser and a car collided about 10 p.m. at Market Street and Dewey Avenue.

A preliminary investigation showed the officer may have been at fault by pulling in front of another car, the spokesman said.

The cruiser had one of the department’s police dogs inside, but neither the dog nor the drivers were injured, he added.

Vets commission meeting canceled

YOUNGSTOWN

The Mahoning County Veterans Service Commission inside Oakhill Renaissance Place, 345 Oak Hill Ave., Suite 100, has canceled its Tuesday board meeting. The commission office will close at noon Wednesday and reopen at 8 a.m. Friday.

Home invasion

GIRARD

A West Liberty Street couple told police someone broke into their home at about 12:30 p.m. Saturday, held the woman at gunpoint, and stole a television, four oxycodone pills and a cellphone. Police were called to the home in the 500 block, where the 50-year-old woman and a 53-year-old man told officers a van pulled in the drive, then a man came into the house, handcuffed the woman and held a gun to the man’s head. Before police arrived, the man had driven away. He is described as Hispanic, about 5 feet 2 inches tall, with a mustache. He was wearing camouflage pants and a black stocking cap. Anyone with information can call Girard police at 330-545-0211.

West Side arrests

YOUNGSTOWN

Police arrested a man on obstruction charges about 5:10 a.m. Saturday at a West Side home while looking for an aggravated-burglary suspect. Reports said police were at a home in the 1900 block of Ridgelawn Avenue looking for Samuel Johntony, 24, who was accused of bursting into a home in the 2000 block of Chaney Circle earlier and breaking things inside. The homeowners told police Johntony was there, but William Fox, 21, who lived there, first put on Johntony’s clothes and walked outside, then stood in a doorway and refused to let police in. Fox was arrested for obstruction of justice and Johntony was found in the home and arrested for aggravated burglary and two warrants. Both were taken to the Mahoning County jail.

Woman arrested

YOUNGSTOWN

A South Gray Avenue woman is in the Mahoning County jail after police say she rammed another woman’s car in an East Side driveway early Saturday. Officers were called to a home in the 3200 block of Oak Street about 3:30 a.m. for a report of a fight between two women and one ramming her car into another one. When police got there, they found 21-year-old Virgen Bonilla arguing with another woman. The other woman told police Bonilla had stopped at her home, argued with her, then rammed her car several times. Bonilla would not stop yelling at the woman as police tried to question them. Bonilla was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and criminal damaging.