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Christmas gifts stolen

YOUNGSTOWN

Reports said some wrapped Christmas gifts were among several items taken from an East Side home Wednesday afternoon.

Police were called at about 5:30 p.m. to a home on North Jackson Street, where a woman who lives there told them she drove by her house and saw her front door open. The woman said she saw two men run out of her house into a waiting car, which then drove through the side of her yard to get away.

Reports said someone took an air conditioner out of a window to get inside. Besides the gifts, two large-screen televisions, two video game consoles and a laptop computer were taken.

Park meeting

BOARDMAN

The Boardman Park commissioners will meet at 8:30 a.m. today at the park office in the Georgeanna Parker Activity Center, 375 Boardman-Poland Road.

Road closure

KINSMAN

Burnett East Road, between state Route 5 and Mayburn Corners-Barclay Road, will be closed Monday and Tuesday to replace a sanitary sewer line.

The recommended detour route is east on Burnett East Road, south on state Route 5, and west on Mayburn Corners-Barclay Road.

Tried to run from cops

YOUNGSTOWN

A man who tried to run from his car early Thursday morning during a traffic stop was arrested on a charge of possession of crack cocaine.

Reports said an officer tried to pull over a car at about 1:50 a.m. driven by Roger Anderson, 48, of Delaware Avenue, at Crandall Avenue and Wirt Street on the North Side for having just one headlight. Instead, Anderson pulled into his drive and tried to run away, reports say.

Police said he threw something into a flower bed and when officers looked there, they found a rock of suspected crack cocaine.

Anderson was taken to the Mahoning County jail.

Repeat OVI arrest

YOUNGSTOWN

Police said a woman registered a blood-alcohol content Wednesday almost four times more than the legal limit after reports said she ran her car into a utility pole at about 5:20 p.m. on Glenwood Avenue.

Police were called to the area for a report of a one-vehicle accident and found a car driven by Rachelle Anderson, 41, of Boardman, with heavy front-end damage next to the demolished pole.

Reports say Anderson failed a field-sobriety test and was taken to the police department for a BAC test, where she registered a BAC of 0.315. The legal limit in Ohio is 0.08. She was cited for operating a vehicle while intoxicated with a BAC greater than 0.17 and failure to control.

Court records show Anderson was also cited in Mahoning County Area Court in Boardman in 2012 for an OVI with the same BAC designation. She pleaded guilty to a charge of OVI and the designation was dismissed, according to court records. Court records show that her BAC at the time of that offense was 0.221.

Jailed after raids

SHARON, PA.

Suspects from Youngstown and Sharon face several drug-related charges after state and local authorities conducted raids at two homes.

According to the 21 WFMJ-TV, The Vindicator’s broadcast partner, the attorney general’s office, the Mercer County Drug Task Force and the Mercer County Critical Incident Response Team executed two search warrants Thursday.

Raids were conducted at 839 Federal St., Sharon, and 928 Fruit Ave., Farrell.

Officers arrested Alan Joseph Ward, 27, of Youngstown, and Gregory George Weidner, 28, of Sharon. Authorities said both men were using the residences to conceal and traffic illegal narcotics, including heroin.

They are charged with various drug-related offenses, including possession with the intent to deliver a controlled substance. They are both in the Mercer County Jail.