Three arraigned on drug charges

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Three people were arraigned on felony drug charges Monday in municipal court before Magistrate Anthony Sertick for separate traffic stops over the weekend.

About 12:25 a.m. Monday, Teresa Light, 51, of Volney Road, was found at West Delason and Summer avenues by police after they responded to an alarm at a Volney Road home for a man and a woman fighting.

Reports said the man told police he was arguing with Light because she was taking drugs.

When officers found her walking, she had a crack pipe. She also had a bag of cocaine in her bra and a syringe in her purse, accordign to reports. She is in the Mahoning County jail on $10,000 bond on charges of possession of cocaine, a felony, and possession of drug- abuse instruments and possession of drug paraphernalia, both misdemeanors.

Also arraigned was 32-year-old Jesse Lavin of Elm Street, who was given a bond of $10,000 on a felony charge of possession of drug as well as misdemeanor counts of possession of drugs and possession of drug paraphernalia.

A trooper from the Ohio State Highway Patrol pulled over a car Lavin was driving about 3:20 a.m. Sunday on state Route 170 for an equipment violation, and just before he pulled over at a gas station, a front tire fell off the car, reports said.

A police dog from Boardman found two bags of crack inside the car, and Lavin also had a bag of marijuana in his sock and a crack pipe in his underwear, reports said.

Arraigned on a third- degree felony charge of possession of heroin was 31-year-old Christopher Carlson of Franklin, Pa., who was arrested about 9:20 p.m. Friday at West Warren and Hillman avenues. Reports said a car Carlson was driving was pulled over because it ran a red light. Reports said when the car stopped, Carlson and a woman in the front seat switched seats.

A police dog was used, and officers found a large bag of heroin in the car and a smaller bag of heroin in his jeans, reports said. Reports said Carlson told police he had just spent $500 on the heroin. The woman he switched seats with, Kayce Jo Henry, 26, no address given, was issued a summons on misdemeanor charges of possessing drug-abuse instruments and possession of drug paraphernalia after paraphernalia was found in her purse. She was released after her arraignment Monday and has a court date set for March 9.