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‘Suspicious’ death

WARREN

Police are treating the death of a 71-year-old Atlantic Street Northwest man as “suspicious” pending an autopsy.

Police responded to the 288 Atlantic NW home of Donald Giovannone on Thursday morning after a friend reported that he could not contact Giovannone. Police found Giovannone dead, said Lt. Jeff Cole of the Warren Police Department.

Police could not locate the 2002 Chevrolet S-10 pickup truck belonging to Giovannone and entered it into a police database as stolen, police said.

The friend who notified police said Giovannone was supposed to go hunting with him.

A police report says Givannone had a “major injury,” but Cole would not comment when asked whether Giovannone’s body had any obvious indications of homicide.

Trucker cited

YOUNGSTOWN

A truck driver was cited Wednesday morning after an 81,000-pound steel ingot fell off his truck at the intersection of Martin Luther King Boulevard and Gypsy Lane.

Police said the driver, 51-year-old Hank Edwards Willard of West Faith Street in Struthers, told them he was hauling the ingot from Warren Steel Holdings when it fell about 11:25 a.m. He said they did not secure the ingot properly so he used cloth strips instead of metal chains to try to hold it on the truck, reports said.

A crane had to be called in to put the ingot back on the truck. A police report said Willard received a citation, but the report did not list the offense.

Robbery reported

WARREN

A 33-year-old Howland man reported being robbed by two armed men outside Larry’s Super Pawn, 2875 W. Market St., at 1 p.m. Wednesday.

The man said he had pulled into the store’s lot. A white van pulled next to him, and two males got out. They asked him for a cigarette, then one of them punched him several times in the face.

The second man took a generator out of the back of his truck, and they left southbound on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

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