Home a total loss

Home a total loss

youngstown

Reports say a vacant home at 33 Zents Ave. is a total loss after a fire in the basement early Sunday.

Crews were called about 12:35 a.m. and found a back door open when they arrived, and were able to get in through that door to put the fire out. Reports noted the house is boarded up.

Damage is listed at $10,000. A cause was undetermined after an investigation, reports said.

Candle caused fire

boardman

A candle is believed to be the cause of a Sunday apartment fire on Lockwood Boulevard that resulted in an estimated $165,000 loss, fire Chief George Brown said.

One man was taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation after the fire broke out at 3:45 p.m. He was attempting to escape from a basement apartment.

Five other tenants along with the man were displaced from the apartment building due to smoke damage.

Drug charges

HOWLAND

Marshall W. Finch, 50, of Athens Drive Southeast was charged with felony drug trafficking Monday when the Trumbull Ashtabula Group Law Enforcement Task Force and Howland Police Department raided his home.

Officers served a search warrant at the home, finding Finch on the couch and finding suspected heroin and marijuana and items used in the sale of drugs.

The raid was the culmination of a two-month TAG investigation.

Officers also found four dogs in the house and no running water. TAG called the Trumbull County Dog Warden to take custody of the dogs.

Accused of theft

NILES

Anisha Hadden, 21, of Parkman Road in Warren was charged with felony robbery Monday, and prosecutors also were planning to charge a 17-year-old Warren girl in connection with a Jan. 27 theft at Macy’s in Eastwood Mall.

Loss-prevention officers attempted to stop two females at 6:23 p.m. regarding a sweater and shirt the two were suspected of taking.

One of the suspects told the other one to “shoot them,” causing the second suspect to reach inside her purse as if she were retrieving a weapon and told the officers to get out of the way or they would be shot. The women left in a black Acura, but they turned themselves in to police after the police released surveillance images of the women to the public. If convicted, Hadden could get eight years in prison.

More Digest on A5