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Woman charged in stabbing was on bail for robbery
By Joe Gorman
YOUNGSTOWN
A woman arraigned after a Wednesday stabbing in which she also was stabbed was on bail on a felony robbery charge.
Tanicqwa Wilkerson, 23, of East Boston Avenue, is in the Mahoning County jail on $50,000 bond after her arraignment before Magistrate Anthony Sertick on a charge of felonious assault.
Wilkerson is accused of stabbing a man during an argument about 11:30 a.m. at a home in the 800 block of East Florida Avenue. So far, no one else has been charged.
Assistant City Prosecutor Shelli Freeze told Magistrate Sertick that Wilkerson has an extensive record for someone who is only 23. She currently faces a felony-robbery charge in Common Pleas Court that was bound over from county court in Boardman.
She is accused in that case of trying on three separate occasions Nov. 20 to steal $250 worth of merchandise from the Boardman Kmart. At one point, reports said, she shoved an employee and bit the hand of a loss-prevention officer. She managed to post $12,000 bond before her case was bound over.
Wilkerson also has convictions for assault, amended from robbery in 2012 in Boardman court, in which she also was held in contempt for not abiding by her probation. She served seven days in jail before the terms of her probation were satisfied, according to court records.
She also was convicted of petty theft in Austintown court after pleading no contest in 2012, and pleaded no contest in an obstruction of justice case in Boardman court in 2013, in which she was ordered to serve two days in jail.
Despite being warned Friday not to talk about the case by Walter Richtie, the court-appointed attorney who advises defendants who are arraigned via video hookup from the jail, Wilkerson said she could not comprehend how she was arrested when she was also stabbed.
“I have two stab wounds and a black eye,” Wilkerson said.
Wilkerson said she also was puzzled how the man in the argument got stabbed because a witness told police that the man was holding a baby during the incident.
“If he had a baby, how did he end up stabbed?” Wilkerson asked.