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Two women unconscious, two others found near drug house
By Joe Gorman
YOUNGSTOWN
In the span of 61/2 hours Monday, one woman was found passed out in a car and swallowed a pill when she came to, another in the throes of a suspected overdose was dropped off at a fire station, and two other people were cited after a neighbor said they just came from a drug house and were in a field where addicts often get high.
About 12:10 p.m. police were called to Oneta Avenue and Frank Sinkwich Place on the West Side, where a man who owns a field behind a home in the first block of Silliman Street said there were two people who just came from a suspected drug house on Oneta Avenue. He wanted them to be charged with criminal trespass because he has been having trouble with people coming from the home on Oneta and taking drugs in the field.
Officers investigated and found Michael Layshock, 22, of Meanderwood Drive in Canfield and Lindsey Martin, 19, of Rosemont Avenue in the field. They were each cited for criminal trespass. Martin was given an additional citation for possession of drug-abuse instruments because she had two needles in her purse and a shoestring that can be used as a tourniquet, reports said.
About 5 p.m., police were called to a parking lot at 2703 Mahoning Ave., also on the West Side, where they were told by a man that a woman in a car almost hit his vehicle at Mahoning Avenue and West Heights. She was in her car in the parking lot passed out.
When officers arrived, they found 29-year-old Amber Marie Johnson of Wellington Avenue with her head on the steering wheel of the running car and a phone in her hand as though she were trying to text someone.
Officers tried several times to wake her up and even took her phone, but she did not wake up until they shut her car off, reports said. Reports said when she woke up, she had an item balled up in her hand, and when an officer asked her to unclench her hand, she swallowed what was in her hand.
Police searched the car and found a cigarette pack that had two more pills inside, reports said. Johnson was issued a summons for possession of dangerous drugs and released at the scene, reports said.
About 6:45 p.m. at the 125 W. Indianola Ave. fire station on the South Side, fire reports said a man came in with a woman who appeared to not be breathing. Reports said the woman had bruises and marks on her arm that were consistent with someone who injects drugs. Paramedics and police were called while firefighters used a device to try and help the woman breathe until paramedics arrived.
The woman was transported to a hospital for treatment but reports did not list her name or the name of the man who dropped her off.