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Police to combine efforts in Austintown-Boardman-Youngstown chase inquiry
By ROBERT CONNELLY
AUSTINTOWN
Three area police departments will combine their cases against a township man and take the matter to a Mahoning County grand jury next Thursday.
Austintown Detective Sgt. Shawn Hevener said Marc Schadel, 29, of Austintown, faces several charges. He led authorities on three chases Tuesday after robberies in Boardman and Austintown and drove through Youngstown, police reports state.
While Schadel had guns in his vehicle during two chases in Austintown on Tuesday night that eventually led to his arrest, Hevener said he did not use the weapons.
Schadel was arraigned Wednesday morning in Mahoning County Area Court here on one charge of third-degree felony robbery. His bond was set at $50,000 cash or bond surety and he will receive court-appointed counsel.
According to an Austintown police report, Schadel also was arrested on charges of failure to comply, a fourth-degree felony; receiving stolen property (a vehicle), a fourth-degree felony; firearm theft, a third-degree felony; drug paraphernalia, a fourth-degree misdemeanor; and obstructing official business, a second-degree misdemeanor.
Schadel was removed from under a deck of a home on Penny Lane after he ran into that neighborhood off Kirk Road. After swerving to avoid a third set of stop sticks thrown on the road in front of him by Austintown police, the stolen car spun 180 degrees and “appeared to be disabled,” a police report said.
Austintown police had previously chased him through the western part of the township earlier Tuesday, from Wyndclift Circle up through Victoria Road to Silica Road and then to state Route 46 – where Schadel is said to have struck a vehicle.
Austintown police ended that chase once he got onto Interstate 80 and they lost him due to high traffic and poor visibility.
The chase was picked back up after Schadel struck another vehicle at Marcia Drive at Elmwood Drive and that chase led to his arrest.
Schadel is alleged to have gone to the Boardman Circle K, 7103 Lockwood Blvd., at 5 a.m. Tuesday.
Boardman police said a man approached the checkout counter with an energy drink, handed the cashier a note demanding money, and then fled with the drink when the employee refused to give him money.
Less than 10 minutes later Tuesday, a similar incident occurred at a convenience store at 3670 S. Meridian Road in Austintown. Schadel reportedly got away with about $150 in that robbery.
He then reportedly led Youngstown police on a chase, which also was ended without catching Schadel.
Police said the vehicle Schadel used Tuesday was taken from a family member’s home on Wyndclift Circle earlier that day.
He also is accused of stealing a firearm from that same residence Friday, a police report said.
He was arrested on charges in both of those thefts Tuesday night by Austintown police.