Man with heroin flees police

YOUNGSTOWN

Police said they found two syringes and a dose of heroin on a Lisbon man who tried to run from them about 6:35 p.m. p.m. Sunday from a vacant house on the East Side.

Reports said officers were called to a home on Albert Street near Verona Avenue for a man entering a vacant house and found Curtis Gearhart, 31. Reports said Gearhart gave police a fake last name and when Gearhart was told by police he would be searched for weapons, he started running.

Reports said Gearhart was tackled then searched, and the syringes and a dose of heroin were found in his pockets. When officers found out his real last name they also discovered he had a warrant from Columbiana County, reports said.

Gearhart was taken to the Mahoning County jail on charges of possessing drug abuse instruments, possession of drugs/heroin, possession of drug paraphernalia and obstructing official business.