Facing charges

Facing charges

YOUNGSTOWN

A city woman was arrested on felonious assault and child-endangerment charges Saturday afternoon after police said she broke a man’s ankle with a crowbar.

Officers were called to South Jackson and Norman streets just before 1 p.m., where they found a crowd in the street and several cars blocking traffic.

A witness said Jacwana Colpreto, 22, was arguing with a man and smashed the windshield of his car before attacking him with the crowbar. Reports said the man had a broken ankle.

Colpreto was charged with child endangering because there was a 14-year-old in her car when she got in the fight. Reports did not say why she and the man were fighting.

OVI charges

BOARDMAN

A Salem woman is set to appear today in Mahoning County Area Court on charges of operating a vehicle while impaired and child endangering after she reportedly drove drunk with her children in the car.

Township police responded to a church on Westview Drive on Friday afternoon after a child of Mary Driscoll, 53, of Youngstown-Salem Road, called the police.

When police stopped Driscoll, the caller and three other children under 15 were in the car, according to a police report.

She tested at a 0.178 blood-alcohol content. The legal limit is 0.08.

Home invasion

WARREN

A city woman, 61, reported a bald male she didn’t know forced his way into her home on Oak Knoll Avenue Southwest at 10:50 p.m. Sunday after she answered the door.

The man demanded money, but the woman said she had only $6. He choked her and hit her face, she told police. He took her purse and agreed to walk with her to an ATM nearby but said he would kill her if she didn’t give him more money.

The woman said the man dragged her out of the house toward Youngstown Road. She ran from him and screamed for help, and the suspect fled on foot.

Man faces charges

BOARDMAN

Brandon Bame, 29, who is listed on a police report as homeless, faces charges of theft, possession of criminal tools, possessing drug-abuse instruments and felony drug abuse after he was arrested on West Boulevard early Sunday.

Police say Bame took a video-game controller from Walmart, 1300 Doral Drive.

Police later found Bame and discovered he had a knife. They also said they found syringes with suspected heroin residue and pills in his car.

The drug-abuse charge was elevated to a felony because of a prior drug conviction, police said.

Bame was taken to the Mahoning County jail.

Drug charges

YOUNGSTOWN

A Hermitage, Pa., man spent most of the weekend in the Mahoning County jail after his arrest on drug charges in a South Side parking lot about 2:20 p.m. Saturday.

Reports said officers were called to the 2600 block of Glenwood Avenue on a report of two men taking drugs in a parked car. When the driver started putting a tourniquet on his arm, the officer approached.

Reports said James Kelly, 28, gave permission for the car to be searched, and police found a belt, a spoon, two syringes, a dose of suspected heroin in Kelly’s wallet and suspected marijuana underneath a child seat.

Kelly is charged with possession of drugs/heroin and possession of drugs/marijuana.

Facing OVI charge

BOARDMAN

A township woman faces a charge of operating a vehicle while impaired after police say she caused an accident with injuries Saturday on West Boulevard.

Township police responded to the accident near Golfview Drive and then discovered that Ashley Nairn, 31, of West Boulevard, was intoxicated. Her blood-alcohol content reportedly was 0.198. The legal limit for intoxication in Ohio is 0.08.

The two-car accident resulted in minor injuries.

Robbery charges filed

BOARDMAN

An Austintown man faces a robbery charge after police said he took merchandise from a Southern Park Mall store, 7401 Market Street, and threw a watch box at an employee.

Leon Reynolds, 41, of Westchester Drive, was arrested Saturday after police found him at Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft, 7386 Market St., after he reportedly stole watches from J.C. Penney and then fled.

A purported accomplice, Stephanie Woodland, 32, of Boardman, was arrested on a misdemeanor theft charge.

Woodland was released on a summons, and Reynolds was taken to the Mahoning County jail.