Author partners with Rescue Mission
Author partners with Rescue Mission
YOUNGSTOWN
The public may attend a reading of “The Empty Hook” by local author Joe Dragovich and musical performance to go along with the book by Mary Jo Maluso at 9:30 a.m. Saturday for families staying at the Rescue Mission of the Mahoning Valley Resident Building, 962 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
This event is to kick off a fundraising partnership between the Rescue Mission and Dragovich. For every book sold, the Rescue Mission receives $5.
Books are available weekdays between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. at the Rescue Mission facilities at 962 Martin Luther King Jr. or 2246 Glenwood Ave.
To order by mail, send checks for $15 made out to the Rescue Mission of the Mahoning Valley, P.O. Box 430, Youngstown, OH 44501, and include complete mailing or contact information.
For information, call Lynn Wyant at 330-744-5485.
OVI Task Force plans weekend blitz
CANFIELD
The Mahoning County Operating a Vehicle Impaired Task Force announced that it will conduct a Corridor Enforcement Blitz sometime this weekend in Mahoning County. The blitz will include police officers from participating agencies of the task force and will target multiple roadways.
Boardman cops probe reports of threats
BOARDMAN
Township police are investigating a case in which a male suspect purportedly threatened to post nude photos of his ex-girlfriend — who was a minor at the time the pictures were taken — on social media sites.
The victim reported to police that the suspect contacted her on Facebook in July and asked her to “hang out.” When she declined to do so, he asked her to send him nude photos.
The suspect continued to harass her and ask for photos, and threatened to post nude photos of her that he has in his possession from when they were dating in 2011.
The victim, who is now 18, was 15 or 16 while she was dating him, she said. She provided police with the photos, which the suspect sent to her, that he threatened to post.
Traffic stop leads to handgun arrest
YOUNGSTOWN
Police say they found a loaded Smith & Wesson handgun during a traffic stop about 3:15 p.m. Wednesday at Wilson and Himrod avenues on the East Side.
Reports said David Tribble, 34, of Youngstown, was pulled over for having excessive window tint. A police dog was brought in to sniff the area around the car and detected the odor of a gun, reports said.
The gun was found in a holster in the car, and a records check revealed it had been stolen in the city in 2012. Police took Tribble to the Mahoning County jail on charges of receiving stolen property and improper handling of a firearm in a motor vehicle.
Arrest made in Shell station robbery
LIBERTY
Police arrested a 17-year-old boy and charged him in connection with an armed robbery at the Shell gas station on Logan Way at Church Hill Road Tuesday. Police responded to a panic alarm at the store at 10:40 a.m.
Surveillance video showed the suspect running toward apartments in the 1400 block of Townsend Avenue, the police report says.
Police arrested Pierre Romello Pardue in an apartment there, where they also found a semiautomatic pistol and a loaded magazine.
He was taken to Trumbull County Juvenile Justice Center.
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