Man recently released from Trumbull jail booked again on aggravated robbery

Staff report

NILES

Darryl V. Jackson Jr., 25, of Deerfield Avenue Northwest and Kenilworth Avenue Southeast, is back in the Trumbull County jail, facing the possibility of a long prison term one month after charges were dropped in another case.

Jackson was arraigned Friday morning in Niles Municipal Court on one count of aggravated robbery, accused of robbing a customer at an automated teller machine at the Huntington Bank branch in front of the Eastwood Mall early Friday.

Judge Thomas Townley set bond at $15,000. No plea was required on the felony charge, which carries a possible penalty of 11 years if he is convicted.

Howland police were alerted by Niles police at 1:25 a.m. Friday to be on the lookout for a black male in a black Pontiac Grand Am who robbed a customer at the bank with a knife and took $100 in cash.

A Howland police officer traveling along Youngstown Road passed a car of that type and made a traffic stop near Youngstown Road and state Route 46.

Jackson was removed from the driver’s seat and placed in handcuffs with assistance from another officer and a trooper with the Ohio State Highway Patrol. Jackson had $121 in cash in his pocket, and the victim of the robbery identified Jackson as the robber, police said.

A woman also was in the car but not charged.

Jackson was in the Trumbull jail from July 28, 2014, to April 16, 2015, awaiting trial on charges of kidnapping, rape and robbery, but he was released from the jail in April after the charges were dismissed by a judge in common pleas court.

The prosecutor in the case asked for the charges to be dismissed because the purported victim admitted she had “misrepresented material facts,” according to a filing in the case.

Jackson also served a prison sentence from March 2010 to December 2014 for an aggravated robbery with a firearm.