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Cops get two guns, make two arrests
By Joe Gorman
YOUNGSTOWN
Police seized two semiautomatic handguns and arrested two men in separate incidents in separate parts of the city Tuesday.
Besides facing weapons charges, one of the men, Antwan Leggett, 34, also faces charges of domestic violence, possession of drugs/heroin and possession of drugs/marijuana after reports said officers found the suspected drugs in a backpack he was supposed to be carrying.
Police were called to Marshall and Hogue streets about 12:40 p.m. for a report of a man carrying a backpack that had a gun inside running toward a ramp to Interstate 680.
A woman in a car flagged down police and said she saw a man drop a bookbag by a fence in the 700 block of Mahoning Avenue.
When police looked inside the bag, they found a 9 mm handgun, five bags of suspected heroin and 15 bags of suspected marijuana.
The woman who called 911 told police she was in a car with Leggett and her 2-year-old daughter on Marshall Street and the pair were arguing when Leggett smacked her in the mouth.
He then pulled a gun out of his pants and threatened to kill the woman, reports said.
Reports said the woman stopped the car and Leggett got out and began running away with the gun and the bookbag.
Leggett was found in a nearby parking lot and taken to the Mahoning County jail after he was arrested.
Judge Robert Milich set Leggett’s bond at $25,000 when he was arraigned in municipal court Wednesday.
The judge also ordered him to stay away from the woman.
About 3:25 a.m. Tuesday, police were called to Hammaker Street for a report that a man wearing a black vest and red hat was walking around with a gun.
When a cruiser arrived, the officer spotted a man in a parked car wearing the same kind of clothes, so officers stopped and questioned and searched the man.
The man was later identified as Darrin Mitchell, 41, of Youngstown.
Reports said an officer searching Mitchell felt a hard object in his vest pocket and took a .45-caliber handgun out of his vest.
Mitchell was booked into the jail on charges of carrying a concealed weapon and being a felon in illegal possession of a firearm.
Judge Milich set his bond at $15,000.