Event helps out area homeless vets

Event helps out area homeless vets

WARREN

Area homeless military veterans can get everything from free haircuts to blood screenings at the 2014 United Methodist Community Center Veterans Stand Down on Friday in Warren.

The second annual event is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 309 N. Park Ave.

Mahoning County veterans can get bus rides to the event by reporting at 8 a.m. to the United Methodist Community Center, 139 E. Boardman St., Youngstown, or at 8:15 a.m. at the Youngstown Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic, 2031 Belmont Ave., Youngstown.

People needing transportation and to register for the event should call the Youngstown UMCC at 330-743-5149 or the Warren UMCC at 330-373-6490. Veterans are asked to bring an identification card and their DD214 discharge document.

Jailed after arrest

WARREN

Phillip D. Honzu, 33, of Ogden Avenue Northwest and Maple Street Southwest, is in the Trumbull County jail without eligibility to make bond after police arrested him Tuesday while executing a search warrant.

Warren’s Street Crimes Unit found a small amount of suspected crack cocaine, about 2 ounces of suspected heroin, a handgun, several digital scales and equipment to manufacture crack cocaine when they raided a house in the 1400 block of Ogden.

Honzu was arraigned Wednesday in Warren Municipal Court, where not-guilty pleas were entered for him on charges of heroin possession and being felon in possession of a firearm.

Suspect in check case

BOARDMAN

Township police believe they have identified a suspect responsible for a string of incidents involving passing bad checks and theft by deception.

According to three police reports filed Monday and Tuesday, three victims reported being approached by a man who asked them to cash checks for him.

The victims were later notified by their banks that the checks were bad.

The suspect approached the victims at a Shell station, 5135 Market St., and the Southern Park Mall, 7401 Market.

The suspect has been positively identified in line-ups by two of the victims and an arrest warrant was to be issued Wednesday, said Detective Greg Stepuk.

Police arrest 2 men

CAMPBELL

Police arrested Paris L. Gray, 20, of Campbell, on charges of carrying a concealed weapon, and Marquise T. Lewis, 19, of Campbell on charges of drug possession at 10:49 p.m. Tuesday.

Police reports said officers noticed three suspicious men wandering between buildings at a Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority complex on Monroe Street. Police asked Gray what was in his pocket and found a handgun that reportedly did not belong to him. Gray has a hearing set for 9 a.m. Friday in Campbell Municipal Court.

Police found a pill bottle and bag filled with suspected marijuana on Lewis. Police released both Lewis and the third man at the scene, but they issued Lewis a citation to appear in court at 9 a.m. Tuesday.

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