Police: Man ran 22 stop signs in chase

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Police reports said a man who led officers on a chase late Wednesday evening on the South Side ran at least 22 stop signs.

Tyrone Lindsey, 32, of Youngstown, is in the Mahoning County jail on $25,000 bond after being arraigned Thursday before Magistrate Anthony Sertick in municipal court on a felony charge of fleeing and eluding and two misdemeanor counts of aggravated menacing.

Reports said officer Marcin Stachowicz spotted a car Lindsey was driving about 11:10 p.m. at South and East Indianola avenues run a red light. When Stachowicz turned on the lights of his cruiser and tried to pull the car over, it failed to stop and sped up, reports said.

Stachowicz followed the car across several South Side streets, and at one point at East Florida and Cambridge avenues, the car ran a stop sign and almost caused an accident with four vehicles, reports said.

A supervisor ordered police to break off the chase on Miller Street but police still had the car in sight. Officer Rob DiMaiolo spotted it pull into a drive in the 700 block of East LaClede and Lindsey jump out and run away.

Stachowicz and DiMaiolo both chased Lindsey through several back yards and ordered him several times to stop running. When he would not stop, he was shot with an electronic stun weapon and taken into custody, reports said.

A records check found that Lindsey was wanted on a warrant from 2013 for threatening to kill a woman and another warrant from 2015 for threatening to kill that woman’s mother.

In court, Lindsey told Sertick he just got out of the military, where he served for eight years, and works in construction.