Update in probe of fatal car crash

Update in probe of fatal car crash

WARREN

The police have identified and interviewed the driver of the white car officials believe was involved in a fatal March 12 car crash.

Police Chief Eric Merkel went to the police department’s Facebook page this afternoon to announce the news, saying the car in question is a 2003 Chevrolet Malibu.

Merkel said, “The investigation by our traffic investigators is continuing.”

Police wanted to talk to the driver to discuss allegations by Jodi Weaver, 40, of Warren, the driver of a pickup truck that rolled several times and crashed into the Raider Lounge tavern on West Market Street.

Weaver said a white car cut her off in traffic just before the crash, causing her to swerve and lose control. Her daughter, Alyssa B. Wynn, 17, died in the crash.

Jury acquits man

YOUNGSTOWN

A jury found a man not guilty late Wednesday of being a felon in possession of a firearm in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.

Jurors reached their verdict after deliberating all afternoon in the courtroom of Judge Shirley J. Christian. They found Gabriel Green, 30, of Norwood Avenue, innocent of having a weapon March 10, 2014, at a North Side home. Green has two previous felony convictions, which bar him from having a firearm.

A weapon was found at the home when it was searched by police who were serving a search warrant, but Green claimed the gun was not his and he did not know it was there.

Drugs, shotgun found in search

YOUNGSTOWN

Vice officers serving a search warrant at a home at 480 Almyra Ave. on Wednesday while investigating drug activity found a shotgun, three shotgun shells, a bag of suspected marijuana, a digital scale and two pipes used to smoke crack cocaine.

A woman in the South Side home, Sharay Gibbs, 21, of Tyrell Avenue, was given a citation for possession of marijuana because she had the drug, reports said.

Reports said police had to force open the front door because no one would answer when they arrived.

Robbery arrest

CAMPBELL

U.S. marshals arrested Treyvonn Tensley, 20, of Youngstown in the aggravated robbery of an elderly man in Roosevelt Park last month.

Police said the marshals made the arrest Thursday morning at Tensley’s home on the East Side of Youngstown. He also was arraigned Thursday in Campbell Municipal Court, where bond was posted at $50,000. His next court appearance is next Friday. He is the fourth suspect arrested in a March 25 attack of a 73-year-old man in the park.

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