Police investigate intimidation report

Police investigate intimidation report

BOARDMAN

Township police are investigating a reported case of intimidation against a Lealand Avenue resident.

The victim, 27, a black female, reported to police Wednesday that she received a racially charged, threatening letter.

The letter, addressed to “resident” and without a return address, demands the woman get out of “our white neighborhood.”

The letter repeatedly uses derogatory racial slurs and is signed “the all white neighborhood.”

Police are investigating the incident as a case of ethnic intimidation.

Park roads closed

YOUNGSTOWN

These roads in Mill Creek Park will be closed to vehicular traffic from approximately 6 to 10:30 a.m. Sunday for the YMCA Triathlon: Price Road; and West Glacier, West, Bears Den, New Cross, Cross, West Cohasset, High, Chestnut Hill, East Park and Valley drives.

Charged with rape

YOUNGSTOWN

Police arrested a man who was being chased by a woman on Market Street on a charge of rape after reports said the woman accused him of raping her Thursday.

Christopher McCoy, 27, was arrested at Market Street and Falls Avenue just after 4 p.m. Reports said the woman told police she was raped at a different location.

McCoy was taken to the Mahoning County jail, reports said. Judge Elizabeth Kobly set his bond at $100,000 during his arraignment in municipal court. Assistant City Prosecutor Jeffrey Moliterno told the judge McCoy accosted a woman he thought was a prostitute, and when she refused him, he forced her into a vacant home and raped her.

The woman then chased after him until he was caught, Moliterno said.

Parole hearing is rescheduled

WARREN

Robert Williams, 56, who killed a young waitress at Stoney’s Lounge on Hyde Oakfield Road in Bristol Township in 1988, refused to appear for his parole hearing last week in Columbus, and it will be rescheduled for October.

If he refuses to appear then, the hearing will take place without him, officials said.

Williams, originally from North Bloomfield, killed Debra E. Blaine, 24, of Eldon Drive in Champion by shooting her in the back of the head and in the back, slitting her throat and stepping on her neck until she stopped breathing, police said.

He has served 26 years of a life prison sentence.

Church sponsors revival event

YOUNGSTOWN

Temple Emmanuel Church, 108 W. Indianola Ave., will host an event, “iQuit Revival 2015” from Sunday through Aug. 1, each night excluding Mondays and Fridays.

The event will feature health screenings, financial training, activities for children, music and more.

For information, call the church at 330-788-9796.

Theft probed

campbell

Police are investigating a theft reported Thursday of $1,239.80 from a safe at a McDonald’s restaurant on McCartney Road. There were no signs of forced entry, police said.

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