Youngstown man faces weapons charges

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Police arrested a city man about 1:50 a.m. Wednesday in the parking lot of a South Side bar on weapons charges.

Jeremy McDonald, 36, was arraigned before Magistrate Anthony Sertick in municipal court on a felony count of carrying concealed weapons and misdemeanor counts of having a gun in place with a liquor permit and aggravated menacing.

He is in the Mahoning County jail on $15,000 bond.

Reports said an officer pulled into the parking lot of a 1148 E. Midlothian Blvd. bar and heard a man scream that McDonald was threatening him with a gun.

Reports said the officer ran toward McDonald, and McDonald tossed something away and tried to run before he was ordered at gunpoint to stop.

Reports said McDonald claimed he did not have a gun, but police searched and found loaded semiautomatic gun close by.

According to police, a man told police he was standing outside the bar when McDonald walked out, pointed a gun at him and threatened to kill him.