2 arrested in separate stops have extensive criminal histories

YOUNGSTOWN

Two men arrested on drug charges in separate traffic stops Tuesday were arraigned in municipal court.

Taavi Parind, 29, of Salem, was a passenger in a car police pulled over at about 4:35 p.m. Tuesday at Judson and Erie avenues for not having a front license plate.

Reports said someone threw several items out of the passenger window of the car before it stopped for police. Officers searched the street where the items were thrown and found a bag of suspected cocaine and 13 pills.

When Parind was taken out of the car and searched, police found five more pills.

At his arraignment Wednesday, city Prosecutor Dana Lantz told Magistrate Anthony Sertick that Parind has multiple theft charges and convictions from several jurisdictions, including Austintown,

Columbiana and from the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office.

Police cited the driver, Christopher Gaston, no age or address listed, for not having a front license plate and released him at the scene.

Also arraigned was 20-year-old Kayln Darnell Sly of Youngstown, whom police arrested on a charge of possession of heroin at about 1:15 a.m. Tuesday at Salt Springs Road and Oregon Avenue on the West Side.

Lantz told Sertick that Sly has an extensive juvenile criminal record, and in just two years as an adult he has been convicted of resisting arrest, improper handling of a firearm in a motor vehicle, served jail time, then had other charges of burglary, kidnapping and criminal damaging in Girard, a probation violation and a disorderly-conduct charge.

Read more about the cases in Thursday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.