Man shot at 4th time
Man shot at 4th time
YOUNGSTOWN
A 20-year-old man told police he was shot at Thursday about 12:35 p.m. by the same person for the fourth time.
The man told police he was walking on East Chalmers Avenue when someone at a home there fired several shots at him but missed.
The victim told police it is the fourth time someone there has shot at him, and they also have pointed at gun at his mother and shot up her house.
Police visited the house, but reports noted the people there were not cooperative.
Beating reported
YOUNGSTOWN
Police reports said a woman in a North Side home told officers her sometime-boyfriend beat her about 10:35 p.m. Thursday because he was upset she was getting a tattoo on her back.
Reports said officers were called to a home in the 200 block of Alameda Avenue, where the woman told them the man, Eric Pruitt, 44, who also is her landlord, slapped her, punched her in the face, choked her and pushed her down the steps.
Reports said as officers were questioning Pruitt, he swiped something off a nightstand, which was a bag of suspected marijuana.
Pruitt was arrested on charges of domestic violence and possession of marijuana and taken to the Mahoning County jail.
Pleads not guilty
WARREN
Jacob Rapczak, 18, of Broadway Avenue in Newton Falls, pleaded not guilty Friday to misdemeanor aggravated trespassing after an East Avenue Southeast man reported waking up at 9 a.m. Wednesday to a noise and seeing Rapczak “staring back at him through the window.”
The resident ran out of the house and caught Rapczak as he was trying to hop over the fence that surrounds the resident’s property, police said.
Police found the high grass outside the window had been trampled, and the window screen had been pulled away from the window, which the resident said was new damage. Bond was set at $2,500 in Warren Municipal Court.
OVI charge
POLAND
A Lowellville man faces an impaired-driving charge after an accident on Bedford Road. Richard Dunlap, 51, of Villa Marie Road, is charged with operating a vehicle while impaired and cited for failure to comply after the incident late Thursday. He was issued a summons to appear in Struthers Municipal Court on Monday.
Museum closed for staff training
YOUNGSTOWN
OH WOW! The Roger & Gloria Jones Children’s Center for Science & Technology, 11. W. Federal St., downtown Youngstown, will be closed to the public for staff training Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. OH WOW! will reopen at 10 a.m. Friday.
Customers are invited to email Suzanne Barbati, president and executive director, to schedule a future visit: director@ohwowkids.org
Cops probe thefts from vehicles
GIRARD
Police are investigating two reports of thefts from unlocked vehicles parked overnight. A resident reported Thursday someone had taken $50 in cash and a debit card from her unlocked car while it was parked overnight from Monday to Tuesday on Davis Street, a police report states.
The resident told police the debit card has been used twice since it was stolen. Another resident reported Thursday someone had taken $140 in cash from his unlocked vehicle parked on Tod Avenue sometime between Wednesday night and Thursday morning.
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