METRO DIGEST || Assault investigated


January 3, 2015 at 12:00a.m.

Assault investigated

WARREN

Police are investigating a New Year’s Day assault on a 34-year-old Front Street Southwest woman that resulted in her having a fracture around her eye, which was swollen shut, and other bruising on her face and neck.

The woman told police her boyfriend punched her in the face while they were driving on Highland Avenue near Front Street at 2:50 a.m. Thursday.

The woman said the man took her cellphone so she couldn’t call anyone. He took her to his mother’s house. She later went to her own mother’s house, where she was given her phone back.

From there, she was taken to ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital by ambulance. Her neck also had numerous bruises and hand prints, and she had a small cut on one eyelid, police said.

Food/clothing event

YOUNGSTOWN

The East Side Crime Watch, 1001 Oak St., will have a food and clothing giveaway from 10 a.m. to noon today. Participants are asked to take proper ID and a bag.

Ryan to host breakfast

NILES

U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan of Howland, D-13th, will host a breakfast at 10 a.m. Sunday at McMenamy’s, 325 Youngstown-Warren Road, in honor of this year’s class of nominees to the nation’s service academies.

This year’s class will have nominations to the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., and the U.S. Air Force Academy, near Colorado Springs, Colo.

Facing charges

BELOIT

A Beloit man faces a court hearing later this month, charged with crimes against children.

According to The Vindicator’s broadcast partner 21 WFMJ-TV, a West Branch student alerted police in early 2014 about the alleged crime. After an investigation, Goshen Township police charged Douglas Miner, 41, of West Middletown Road, with 16 counts of pandering obscenity involving a minor and tampering with evidence.

A Mahoning County grand jury indicted Miner on the charges earlier this week.

Police say Miner recorded a juvenile girl and later tried to conceal the evidence on electronic devices, the television station reported.