Tickets still available

Tickets still available

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Tickets still are available to hear Sal Giunta, recipient of the Medal of Honor for his actions in combat in 2007 in Afghanistan, speak Wednesday at the James and Coralie Centofanti Symposium.

The event begins at 7:30 p.m. at Stambaugh Auditorium. Tickets are free and can be picked up at the Stambaugh box office during regular business hours. For information, call 330-941-2136.

Giunta, the first living service member to receive the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War, will present “Uncommon Valor: The Importance of Teamwork, Sacrifice and Leadership.” On Oct. 25, 2007, Giunta and his team were navigating through Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley when they were ambushed by an insurgent force. While under heavy enemy fire, Giunta sprinted toward cover and engaged the enemy.

City man arrested

YOUNGSTOWN

Police say a man they spotted who fell off a bicycle early Monday was wanted on a warrant charging him with driving under the influence.

An officer on patrol noticed a bicycle on the ground about 12:40 a.m. Monday at Glenwood and Lake avenues and when he went to investigate he found Dennis Bruce, 32, of Spring Meadow Circle, in a nearby yard.

Reports said Bruce told the officer he was riding the bicycle and fell on the ground and had been drinking. A records check revealed the warrant, which is out of municipal court. He was arrested on the warrant and taken to the Mahoning County jail.

Suspicious death

WARREN

Police are treating as suspicious the death of Benny J. Robinson, 37, of Beachwood Avenue Northeast, who was found unresponsive at his cousin’s apartment Saturday morning.

Police said Robinson had been drinking Friday night and went to his cousin’s apartment on High Street Northeast at 4 a.m. They went to sleep at 5 a.m. He was snoring loudly and sweating, but he had complained of no medical problems, his cousin said.

Robinson had been sleeping on a mattress in the living room, and his cousin was sleeping on the couch in the same room, she said. She found him unresponsive a little before noon.

Drug collection

WARREN

Local law-enforcement officers from the N.E. Ohio Law Enforcement Task Force will be collecting and destroying prescription drugs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday as part of “Operation: Empty Medicine Cabinet.”

The officers will accept unused or expired drugs in original containers at the Geauga-Trumbull Solid Waste Management facilities at 5138 Enterprise Drive off Parkman Road, near the Route 5 bypass. Officers will count the medications and destroy them.

The Alliance for Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition is sponsoring the program. Medications accepted include: pills, capsules, patches, gels, powders, ointments, syrups, vitamins, inhalers and pet meds. Keep drugs in original containers or in sealed plastic bags.

Medications not accepted: needles, syringes, lancets, thermometers, IV bags, aerosol cans, hydrogen peroxide, empty containers and illegal drugs.

Other partners in the event are the Geauga-Trumbull Solid Waste Management District and the Area Agency on Aging 11.

Sentenced to prison

WARREN

Joshua Pastore, 35, of Bazetta Road was sentenced to two years in prison Monday after pleading guilty to failing to stop after an accident and felony drunken driving.

Pastore rear-ended a car on North Road near Main Street in Weathersfield Township on March 12, then fled the scene, according to Weathersfield police. A Weathersfield officer spotted Pastore and his damaged vehicle on state Route 46 in Mineral Ridge and arrested him a short time later.

Pastore was convicted of drunken driving five times previously — in 1996, 2003, 2008 and two times in 2009, court documents say. Judge Peter Kontos of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court also ordered that Pastore serve a lifetime driver’s license suspension.

Man robs store

CAMPBELL

City police said a man robbed the Family Dollar in the 300 block of Robinson Road at 8:40 p.m. Monday.

After robbing the cashier at gunpoint, he got away with an undetermined amount of cash from the register. Police were looking for evidence and watching surveillance videos. Employees said they believe the man fled on foot.

He was wearing a white-hooded sweatshirt with black or blue writing on it and blue jeans. He is about 6 feet 4 inches tall.

Purses stolen from cars

AUSTINTOWN

Police reported purses were stolen from three unlocked vehicles in the parking lot of the township park on Kirk Road between 2:52 and 4:40 p.m. Sunday.