Saturday, January 24, 2015
Staff report
YOUNGSTOWN
Members of the police department’s Vice Squad arrested one person and cited another at separate homes Thursday while serving search warrants investigating drug activity.
Officers arrested Kenneth Price at a South Whitney Avenue home on the West Side about 4:50 p.m. Price, who lists the home as his address, was taken to the Mahoning County jail on a charge of possession of drugs. Reports said he ran when police arrived but he was caught in the backyard. When he was searched, police found two suboxone strips and $256 in cash.
A pregnant woman in the house also began to have contractions, and an ambulance was called to take her to the hospital, reports said.
About 6:15 p.m., at a home at 617 West Ravenwood Avenue on the South Side, police issued a citation to William Tatum, 37, of East Calla Road in Poland, charging him with possession of drugs, possession of drug-abuse instruments and possession of drug paraphernalia after police found him in possession of a bag of suspected marijuana, two suboxone strips, a digital scale, a spoon with heroin residue, a syringe and a loaded magazine for a .45-caliber handgun.
He was released on a summons.