Thursday, August 20, 2015
No safety belts on 2 kids injured in crash
BRACEVILLE
Two of three small children not buckled into child-safety seats were taken by helicopter to Akron Children’s Hospital with head and facial injuries after a two-vehicle crash at state Routes 534 and 5 Tuesday afternoon. Altogether seven people were injured.
The three children, age 3, 4 and 5, were sitting in the third-row bench seat of a minivan headed west on Route 5 at 1:51 p.m. Tuesday. A Jeep Cherokee driven by Raymond Rogala, 25, of Freedom, headed north on Route 534, failed to stop at a red light, colliding with a van driven by Christopher Jones, 18, of Warren. Rogala and a passenger, Emma Kerr, 18, of Newton Falls, were transported to Robinson Memorial Hospital in Ravenna.
Jones was treated at the scene. A front-seat passenger in his van, Kelly Gibowicz, 39, of Warren, was taken to ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital. A female, 16, in the second row of the van, and the third child in the back row of the van were taken to Akron Children’s Hospital, the Ohio State Highway Patrol said. Charges are pending further investigation, the patrol said.
Man beaten, robbed
WARREN
A city man, 37, reported being robbed by two men as he walked south on North Park Avenue at 2:30 a.m. Thursday.
The man said he was near Idylwild Street when a male tapped him on the shoulder and asked for a cigarette.
The suspect then punched him in the mouth, possibly with brass knuckles, and the other male kicked him. Both men took his wallet and cellphone.
Child sex charges
WARREN
A complaint from a girl about a Cortland man’s behavior has led to 22 criminal charges being filed in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court. He could get dozens of years in prison, if convicted.
A county grand jury on Wednesday indicted Michael T. Lennox, 49, of Wakefield Drive, on nine counts of illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material or performance, three counts of disseminating matter harmful to minors, two counts of gross sexual imposition, four counts of importuning and four counts of public indecency.
Cortland police said a girl’s family reported Lennox exposed himself to the girl at Lennox’s house multiple times in recent years.
Police said they later located Lennox driving his car, and he told them about child pornography on his phone.
Champion fire grant
CHAMPION
Champion Fire Department will receive $88,515 for operations and safety through the Assistance to Firefighters Grants program of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
It is one of several grants announced this week by U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan of Howland, D-13th.
“It is critical that we ensure the health and safety of our firefighters and first responders,” Ryan said in a news release.
Man shot in shoulder on city’s South Side
YOUNGSTOWN
Police are investigating a shooting at 149 E. Auburndale Ave. Wednesday night.
A man was injured by a gunshot through the shoulder. The suspect then fled into a silver car.
No further information was available from police late Wednesday night.