METRO DIGEST || Cops to victim: ‘Stop meeting people like this’

‘Stop meeting them’

WARREN

A man reported that he was robbed by two men with bandannas over their faces and a gun in the 1900 block of West Market Street at 12:30 a.m. Wednesday. The man, 49, of Warren, said he met a woman he met on Facebook in the parking lot of a business and had sex with her in his truck for $250. The woman said she would have more sex with him for $150 more, so he went to an ATM machine and withdrew the money and returned. The woman got back in the truck and took the $150, but then the two males opened the passenger door, pulled him out, pointed a gun at him and demanded money. He gave them $100, and they left. The victim drove to the police station to report it and was advised “to stop meeting people like this.”

Pavlik case delayed

NILES

Former boxing champ Kelly R. Pavlik again appeared for a hearing in Niles Municipal Court Wednesday on misdemeanor assault and disorderly conduct charges, but the case was not resolved and will be re-set. Pavlik was charged in April, after Weathersfield police said he was involved in a fight in the parking lot of the Pine Tree Plaza during a concert by recording artists Foo Fighters and their Warren-born front man, Dave Grohl.

Pavlik, 33, lives on Sugarbush Drive in Canfield.

Traffic-patrol grant

YOUNGSTOWN

The police department has received a $36,537 grant from the state Department of Public Safety for fiscal year 2016. The department will be working extra patrols from October to September 2016 to look for drunken drivers and other traffic offenses. The grant will pay for overtime to traffic officers. The funds came through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Arrested at Walmart

LIBERTY

A woman was arraigned Wednesday in Girard Municipal Court on charges of possession of drugs, possession of drug paraphernalia and theft. Liberty police arrested Sierra Whitney, 29, of Youngstown at Walmart on Goldie Road after responding to a call about suspected shoplifting. A police report states that Whitney was holding a folded piece of paper and a straw, which both contained a powdery substance that tested positive for heroin. Whitney also had an active warrant through Liberty Township for failure to appear on a theft charge, police said. Her next court appearance is Wednesday.

Home invasion

BROOKFIELD

Three people will be arraigned today in Eastern District Court here on charges related to a home-invasion robbery on Syme Street in Masury early Tuesday in which the victim was threatened with a knife and suffered a cut that required stitches. Sade N. Tibbs, 19, of Iowa Street Northwest in Warren; Pabalo Valentin Jr. of Redford, Mich,; and Lamar Q. Holmes Jr., 20, of Tangent Street in Youngstown remain in the Trumbull County jail after being arrested during a 2:35 a.m. traffic stop Tuesday in Vienna. The three matched the description of the suspects in the robbery and had items with them matching those taken during robbery, police said. Each will be arraigned on single counts of felonious assault, aggravated burglary and aggravated robbery. The victim, 18, knows Tibbs, who was visiting at his house when Valentin and Holmes entered the home, resulting in a struggle that involved broken glass and a mirror, said Brookfield Township Police Chief Dan Faustino. In the struggle, the victim suffered the cut and other injuries, Faustino said. The victim was taken to an area hospital for treatment.

Child’s skull fractured

WARREN

Kayla Liller, 21, of Warren and East LaClede Avenue in Youngstown, was sentenced to seven years in prison Wednesday in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court after pleading guilty earlier to two counts of child endangering for injuring her boyfriend’s daughter, age 4.

Liller’s boyfriend, Tedy Mendez II, 25, of Laird Avenue Southeast and Western Reserve Place in Austintown, received the same prison sentence earlier and pleaded guilty to the same offenses. Gabe Wildman, assistant Trumbull County prosecutor, said the girl suffered a skull fracture, broken arm, and bruising “from head to toe” while under the supervision of Mendez and Liller. “We felt she was as culpable, if not more, culpable than Tedy,” Wildman said, adding that Liller admitted to slamming the child’s head into the corner of a wall. That is believed to be the reason the child had a skull fracture, Wildman said.

Hubbard Fun Day

HUBBARD

Hubbard Area Chamber of Commerce will host Community Fun Day from 2 to 8 p.m. Sunday in the parking lot of Save-A-Lot at 880 W. Liberty St. There will be games for kids, concessions and local vendors. Cover band Guys without Ties will play from 3 to 7 p.m. A fireworks show, sponsored by Aqua Ohio, kicks off at 8.

Threatened with gun

WARREN

A man was charged early Wednesday after police say he went to a Lodwick Drive Northwest apartment and pointed a gun at people and fired it. No one was injured. Jordan J. Devlin, 20, of Tod Avenue, is being held in the Trumbull County jail without eligibility to make bond after being arraigned Wednesday on two counts of felonious assault and one count of aggravated menacing. Stacey M. Serbin, 21, of Kuszmaul Avenue Northwest in Champion, was released from the jail on $2,500 bond after being arraigned on tampering with evidence, illegal conveyance of a firearm onto the grounds of a detention facility and carrying a concealed weapon. One victim said Devlin pointed a gun in his direction and fired it. Another victim said Devlin pointed the gun at her as she stood in a third-floor window and said, “You’re next.” Devlin and Serbin drove away but were apprehended a short time later not far away. Serbin’s charges resulted from a search at the Trumbull County jail in which a handgun was found in her shorts.

Poland BOE meeting

POLAND

Poland Board of Education will conduct a special meeting at 7 tonight at the high school cafeteria for the purpose of discussing the district’s plan for buildings and grounds. The school district is seeking a levy to raise funds to build a new school. Voters will see that issue on the November ballot.

Unlocked car thefts

BOARDMAN

Township police handled a slew of cases reported Tuesday in which unlocked vehicles were entered. About a dozen theft-from-auto cases were reported Tuesday; most occurred on Ridgewood Drive. Reports also came from residents of Rockdale Avenue, and Griswold, Wolcott, Gilbert and Brainard drives. In some cases, residents reported that money, electronic devices and other items were taken, and in other cases no items were missing from vehicles. Out of the dozen or so vehicles that were entered, none were locked.

Akron man charged

BOARDMAN

Township police have filed charges against a man they believe is responsible for burglaries at two Fairfield Drive residences.

Jarrod Lehman, 32, of Akron, is charged with felony theft and two counts of burglary. The charges stem from incidents reported Saturday. Police say Lehman burglarized a garage on Fairfield Drive, stole a vehicle, burglarized another garage on the street, then used the stolen vehicle to flee.

A warrant for his arrest was issued Tuesday.

Newton Falls man, 38, dropped off at ER dies

WARREN

Warren Police Department called out a detective and forensic-evidence technician to investigate the death of a Newton Falls man, 38, who was dropped off at the emergency room at ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital at 7:50 p.m. Tuesday. The detective interviewed a woman, 32, of a different Newton Falls address, who had brought the man to the hospital and had been with him earlier, police said. Under injuries for the deceased man, a police report listed “unknown.”

Warren drug charges

WARREN

Larry M. Smith, 32, of Milton Street Southeast, was released from the Trumbull County jail Tuesday after being arraigned on two counts of felony drug possession. A not-guilty plea was entered for him. The Warren Police Department Street Crimes Unit arrested him while conducting a search at a house in the 500 block of Parkman Road Southwest Monday morning after a 2-month investigation. Detectives recovered crack cocaine, heroin and drug paraphernalia from the home.