YPD arrests 2 trying to conceal evidence inside themselves

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Police had to use extra care in two separate incidents Wednesday and Thursday in dealing with drugs or drug paraphernalia that suspects tried to stuff inside their bodies.

At about 7 p.m. Wednesday, police were called to a vacant home in the 1400 block of Fifth Avenue where they found a man pleasuring himself in the driveway, reports said, in sight of several people and cars on the street.

Reports said when the man, later identified as Melvin White, 39, saw officers he began running toward the house with no pants on. He ignored orders to get on the ground and instead was jamming items into his rectum before setting them under a pile of clothes.

Also arraigned Friday on charges of possession of drug-abuse instruments, possession of drugs/marijuana and possession of drugs was Courtney Bush, 22, of Pointview Avenue.

Reports said Bush was a passenger in a car that was pulled over at about 5:10 p.m. Thursday at East Indianola Avenue and Rush Boulevard on the South Side for having several items hanging from the rear view mirror and officers saw her fumbling her hands inside the front of her pants.

Reports said police took the driver and another passenger out of the car. As they were being removed, Bush was moving her hands around more frantically, police said.

When police told her they would search her for weapons, she said she had stuffed a large bag of marijuana inside of her and she pulled it out and threw it on the ground.

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