Thursday, February 19, 2015
Facing gun charges
YOUNGSTOWN
Police took Cheyne Kenny, 25, of Youngstown, to the Mahoning County jail on a charge of discharging a firearm in city limits after police were called to a home in the 1300 block of Bennington Avenue about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Reports said officers were called for reports of gunfire inside a home. When they arrived, they were met by Kenny, who was wearing a bulletproof vest and smelled heavily of alcohol.
Reports said a woman inside the home gave police a 9 mm semiautomatic pistol she had hidden from Kenny. Police also recovered two 9 mm shell casings next to the back door inside the home.
The witness told police when Kenny heard gunfire outside, he got his gun, went to the back door and fired a couple of rounds, reports said.
Reports said Kenny admitted to police he fired the gun. He was then taken into custody.
Burglar chased out
YOUNGSTOWN
Police reports said a man chased a burglar out of his East Side home about 9:55 a.m. Tuesday with a knife and a hammer.
Police were called to a home in the 1000 block of Clay Street, where a man said he was asleep when his wife came running in and said an unidentified man who got into the house by breaking a bathroom window was shouting at his wife, who does not understand English.
The homeowner grabbed the hammer and knife and told the man to leave. The man ran out the back door, reports said. Reports said it appeared nothing was taken.
Three face charges of running drug lab
BELOIT
Goshen police arrested three people on charges of running a lab to make methamphetamine after searching a home in the first block of Oakwood Avenue about 3 p.m. Tuesday while investigating a gun complaint.
Reports said officers could smell chemicals from inside the home and they heard two men and a woman crying. The home-owner, Andrew Bourgoujian, 44, gave officers permission to search and they found methamphetamine cooking, reports said. Also, Angela Firestone, 30, of Akron was crying, and a man ran out the back door.
That man was not found. Firestone and Bourgoujian were both charged with illegal manufacture of drugs and illegal assembly of chemicals for the manufacture of drugs. Bourgoujian faces additional counts of assault on a police officer and resisting arrest for tangling with police at the police station. Firefighters, the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation and the drug task force assisted in the cleanup.
Man charged with child endangering
NEWTON FALLS
Dustin S. Coakley, 28, of Olive Street, will be arraigned today in Newton Falls Municipal Court on one count of child endangering after police found a 4-year-old boy in his care walking through town Friday in 5-degree weather.
Police were called to the intersection of Water Street and Fairport Road at 7:12 a.m. by a woman who had found the boy walking along the road. He told police he was walking to his grandmother’s house, but police later learned she lives in Ravenna.
Police took the boy to his house on Olive Street, a short distance away, and found Coakley asleep in the house and unaware that the boy had left.
Coakley was taken into custody because of a warrant out of Warren Municipal Court. The boy’s grandmother and mother arrived to take possession of the boy and two other children in the home.
Arrest warrant issued for Warren woman
NEWTON FALLS
An arrest warrant has been issued for Angel Lough, 22, of Risher Road in Warren, charging her with petty theft and cruelty to animals. Her ex-husband accused her of taking a cat from his porch that was later found dead along the road.
The Animal Welfare League of Trumbull county is conducting a necropsy on the cat to determine how it died, but police have charged Lough with cruelty to animals because she removed it from its four kittens, which were only several days old.
The cat was found dead on Kale Adams Road in Braceville Township after that, and police recovered the animal for the necropsy.
Locker-room flooding
youngstown
A frozen sprinkler head at the Chaney Campus caused flooding in a locker room Wednesday.
The sprinkler head broke and water flowed into the room. No damage estimate had been determined, but Harry Evans, the Youngstown school district’s chief of operations, doesn’t expect it to be significant. There was no equipment in the room, which has concrete floors. Because the problem involved the building’s sprinkler system, the fire alarm sounded, and the city fire department was dispatched to the school.
Blue Rally planned
WARREN
A Blue Rally In The Valley will take place from 10:30 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Gazebo in the Courthouse Square. Free blue light bulbs will be provided, and T-shirts will be available. Participants are asked to wear blue to support law-enforcement officers.
Trumbull Hospice to announce grants
WARREN
The Hospice Trust of Trumbull County, a new source of financial support for hospice-related services, plans to announce its second round of grants later this year and is welcoming proposals. It plans to award $100,000.
The Hospice Trust, with $2.2 million in assets, was re-purposed and re-established recently to carry on the charitable work of the Visiting Nurse Association of Trumbull County Hospice Trust, which became inactive after the local VNA stopped operating in January 2012.
Those interested in applying for a grant must complete an application by April 1. An online application form can be accessed from the Apply for a Grant section of the Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley website, located at www.cfmv.org.