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Austintown authorities looking for a missing man
By ROBERT CONNELLY
AUSTINTOWN
Township authorities are searching for a man who was last seen Wednesday.
Anthony T. Harrison, 24, of Compass West apartments, was reported missing Friday by a woman he knows. He was last seen wearing navy blue jogging pants, a white tank top and black shoes. A police report lists his height as 5 feet 11 inches tall and his weight at 190 pounds.
Telasia Banks of Youngstown told police she last heard from Harrison at 7:29 p.m. Wednesday through texting and that he was on his way over to see her.
According to a police report, Banks reached out to a friend of Harrison’s through Facebook after attempting to call and text him unsuccessfully. Banks also told police Harrison had told her he was with a man and that “he was going to hit a ‘lick” before coming to her home. Hit a lick is street slang for getting some money quickly.
A friend of Harrison’s told Banks a car that Harrison drives had been at the corner of Campbell Street and Hunter Avenue for the past few days, and Banks found the vehicle there.
She was able to talk to the car’s owner, also of the same Compass West apartment as Harrison. The car’s owner, a woman, also said she had not seen Harrison since he left Wednesday to go to Banks’ apartment.
The owner had filed a police report Friday against Harrison on a charge of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, a police report said.
Police were able to trace a cellphone belonging to Harrison to a house in the 200 block of Hilton Avenue on Youngstown’s South Side. He was not there but had returned mail at the address.
Austintown Detective Sgt. Jordan Yacovone said, “We’re looking for him ... [and] trying to track his cellphone records.”