Boardman cop's gun found during Youngstown traffic stop
By Joe Gorman
YOUNGSTOWN
Three people were arraigned in Youngstown Municipal Court Tuesday after they were caught with property belonging to a Boardman police officer that was taken in a burglary at a West Side home Saturday, police said.
Police found the three on the East Side and one of them ran, carrying the officer’s Glock semiautomatic duty weapon, reports say.
Arraigned in court were Devon M. Talley Jr., 21, of Youngstown, on the charges of carrying a concealed weapon, burglary, possession of drugs and failure to comply; Shardell Lowery, 23, of Youngstown, on charges of obstructing official business and possession of marijuana; and Jonathan Lee, 20, also of Youngstown, on a burglary charge.
About 7:55 p.m. Saturday, officer Jose Morales wrote in a report that he was on Oak Street near the Madison Avenue Expressway when he saw a man and a woman fighting in a car that was stopped at a red light.
Morales said he tried to pull the car over, and it pulled into the parking lot of a 1010 Oak St. store, and the driver, later identified as Talley, got out of the car and ran away.
Morales said he chased Talley across Albert Street and could see he was carrying a gun, but Talley was slowed down when he stopped to jump over a fence. Morales pulled his own weapon and ordered Talley to stop, and Talley threw the gun away into some brush before dropping to the ground and giving up, the report states.
Talley told Morales he had two magazines for the gun on him. Talley was placed under arrest and the magazines were confiscated. As Talley was walked back to the car, he complained about the woman he was fighting with, who is the mother of his child, the report states.
The woman, later identified as Shardell Lowery, 23, and two other passengers, one of them Lee, were ordered out of the car, reports state. Police went back to where Talley was running and found a Glock 21 handgun with a laser sight. Inside the car they found an electronic stun gun, a baton and a video game controller.
During a search of Lowery, a female officer found a can of police-issued chemical spray and two bags of suspected marijuana in her bra.
As police were searching the car they were made aware of a burglary call on Vestal Road, where a woman and her boyfriend, a Boardman police officer, said someone broke into her home and took his duty belt, a television and her video game system.
Also found inside the car where Talley was sitting was a small bag of suspected marijuana, the report states. Lowery gave police a false name while they were questioning her, the reports states.
The other passenger in the car, a juvenile, was released to his parents and was not charged.
In court, City Prosecutor Dana Lantz told Judge Robert Milich that Talley told officers he was not inside the Vestal Road home but he is complicit because he was driving the car and was the getaway driver.
Talley, Lowery and Lee are all in the Mahoning County jail pending their next court dates.