Father, son, caught breaking into vacant home

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Police arrested a father and son who they say tried to break into a vacant Hilton Avenue home just before noon Wednesday.

A Youngstown Street Department supervisor assisted in the search.

James McNair, 59 and his son, Daquan McNair, 24, are in the Mahoning County jail on a charge of breaking and entering. James McNair has an additional charge of obstruction of justice.

Police were called to Hilton Avenue on the South Side by a neighbor who saw three men enter a vacant home.

When officers arrived, they found a man leaning against a pickup truck loaded with scrap.

Another man ran out of the house through a backyard.

The man who was found by the truck was James McNair. He was handcuffed and placed in a cruiser, reports said.

A description of the man who ran away was broadcast and a street department supervisor saw the man, later identified as Daquan McNair, walking toward Helena Avenue, reports said.

The supervisor continued giving officers updates as they fanned out to try and catch him, reports said.

He was tracked crossing Market Street to a fast-food restaurant on West Midlothian Boulevard.

Reports said he tried to open the driver’s-side door of someone’s car that was in the drive-through lane, but he failed.

Reports said Daquan McNair continued running.

An officer was injured trying to catch him.

He eventually was caught by two officers in a yard in the 300 block of West Midlothian Boulevard and taken back to Hilton.

His father told an officer he had no idea who was with him and who it was that ran.

When police found out the two were related, James McNair received the additional charge of obstruction of justice.

The third person was not found, police said.

The McNairs are expected to be arraigned in municipal court Friday.