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Three men arrested after running from police
By ROBERT CONNELLY
BOARDMAN
A car stolen in Austintown was recovered hours later overnight Monday in Boardman, and three men are arrested in the case.
Mark J. Butcher, 18, of Youngstown, was arrested on misdemeanor charges of obstructing official business and theft without consent. His bail was set at $1,250 and he bonded out, a police report said. Butcher has a trial on the misdemeanor charges at 11 a.m. Aug. 4 in Mahoning County Area Court here after he was arraigned Tuesday morning.
George J. Adams, 16, of North Four Mile Run Road in Austintown, was arrested on misdemeanor charges of obstructing official business and theft without consent as well as a minor misdemeanor for curfew violation. He was booked on the scene and released to a relative.
Chase A. McKinney, 18, of Youngstown, was arrested on a felony charge of receiving stolen property and misdemeanor charges of obstructing official business and theft without consent. His bail was set at $6,250. He has a preliminary hearing on the felony charge July 28 and a pretrial hearing the same day on the misdemeanor charges. He also was arraigned Tuesday morning in Boardman court.
According to an Austintown police report, a woman from Nottingham Drive reported her car stolen from her driveway at 8:25 p.m. Monday. A next-door neighbor called police on two males in their garage on an attempted theft about the same time.
According to the Boardman police report, township police were called to the 6700 block of Appleridge Circle at 12:13 a.m. Tuesday about a suspicious vehicle parked on the street in front of a home. Authorities found the car, confirmed it was the same stolen car from Austintown and noted that the vehicle was still warm.
An officer used a flashlight between two houses across the street from the car and saw three males take off running as two jumped a fence and the third ran across Applewood Boulevard. Butcher was captured first in the Talmer Bank parking lot, and authorities using thermal imaging found Adams hiding behind a trash bin of La-Z-Boy Furniture, 770 Boardman-Poland Road.
Both Butcher and Adams said they were picked up by a male named Chase and that he was driving the vehicle.
At 2:10 a.m. Tuesday, officers located McKinney on Oakridge Drive and identified him as one of the men who ran from police. McKinney said they ran from the officers because they ran from a bill of about $31 at Steak ‘n Shake in Boardman.