Revived with naloxone

Revived with naloxone

WARREN

One man was revived with naloxone, the opiate-overdose-reversal drug and taken to the hospital, and another was arrested Sunday afternoon on a warrant in the 2600 block of South Street Southeast.

While paramedics attended to the overdose victim, officers questioned the other male, 38, of Adelaide Avenue Southeast, whom paramedics found asleep with a hypodermic needle in his possession when they arrived.

Police found suspected heroin on a nightstand and about a dozen hypodermic needles in the house.

Charges are possible after lab results are available on the substances recovered, police said.

Arrested after party

BOARDMAN

A township man faces an impaired-driving charge after he was arrested Sunday, when township police reportedly found him behind the wheel of a crashed vehicle, wearing a bed sheet with a belt around it. Ivan Adu-Poku, 20, of Squirrel Hill Drive, is charged with operating a vehicle while impaired and operating a vehicle without maintaining reasonable control.

Police responded to Sierra Madre Trail about 3 a.m. Sunday, where they reportedly found Adu-Poku’s vehicle crashed into a telephone pole. The crash reportedly caused damage to the pole and knocked out power to several homes.

Adu-Poku told officers, according to a police report, he had attended a toga party at a Youngstown State University fraternity.

He was arrested after reportedly failing a field-sobriety test. He was released on a summons and is scheduled to appear today in Mahoning County Area Court here.

Faces possession charge

HUBBARD

Jessica Hill, 37, of Lisbon will be arraigned today in Girard Municipal Court on a charge of possession of drug paraphernalia.

A city police officer stopped Hill after he observed her driving on a city street in marked lanes and with a cracked windshield Thursday.

According to the police report, the officer discovered Hill had a burnt suspected crack pipe in her purse.

Attempted shoplifting

LIBERTY

A man was booked into Trumbull County jail after reportedly punching a Walmart employee after a shoplifting attempt Saturday afternoon.

A 37-year-old security employee at Walmart on Goldie Road told police that Edwin Delacruz, 39, of Youngstown took speakers worth approximately $25. The employee also reported being punched in the left eye by Delacruz while trying to stop him from leaving the store. Delacruz faces a felony charge of robbery and a misdemeanor charge of petty theft.

Stop leads to charges

CAMPBELL

A traffic stop Saturday led to misdemeanor charges of carrying a concealed weapon, possession of drugs and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Officers stopped a vehicle on Coitsville Road near Memorial Circle just after midnight for an obstructed windshield, according to a police report. The report states that officers smelled marijuana and found a suspected marijuana cigarette and a handgun in the purse of one of the passengers, Jocelyn Lowe, 28, of New Castle, Pa.

Lowe will be arraigned today in Campbell Municipal Court.

Police arrest woman using pregnancy cast

BOARDMAN

A woman used a mold cast to appear to be pregnant to steal clothing in the township, police said.

Police arrested Jessica L. Mitchell, 28, of Youngstown, at 5:52 p.m. Saturday at Bath and Body Works, 379 Boardman-Poland Road, on charges of misdemeanor theft, possession of criminal tools and probation violation.

According to a police report, Mitchell was searched and found to be wearing a cast mold of a pregnant abdomen, which was used to conceal clothing reportedly stolen from Kohl’s. She had fled that clothing store and was arrested in front of Bath and Body Works.

She is alleged to have stolen $179 worth of merchandise.

Assaulted under bridge

WARREN

A Girard man staying at the Christy House homeless shelter on Main Avenue Southwest in Warren reported Friday that he was treated at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for a brain bleed suffered in an Oct. 18 assault near the Christy House.

The man said he was relaxing under the bridge on Main Avenue at 5 p.m. when he was approached by an unidentified male.

The victim said he woke up bleeding from the head and saw that his money, phone and prescription pills were gone.

Senior Watch Program

LIBERTY

Liberty Township’s Senior Watch Program has been in existence for six years, and there are 136 seniors enrolled in the program. Outreach to seniors in need is constant.

The program provides a multitude of services, including lock boxes, smoke detectors and carbon-monoxide detectors. For those who wish, daily welfare checks via phone calls by township staff are available. The program also offers an annual breakfast with police and fire personnel, along with trustees and staff in attendance.

For those interested in the senior watch program, contact Joy at 330-759-0360, ext. 102, or Marcy at 330-759-1315, ext. 200.

New trailhead

BLOOMFIELD

The Trumbull County MetroParks District and Bloomfield Township trustees will have a ribbon-cutting at 10 a.m. Saturday for its newest trailhead on the Western Reserve Greenway and soccer fields to be constructed nearby by the township.

The trail head is on state Route 87, just east of state Route 45.

Fracking trends

YOUNGSTOWN

Dr. Larysa Dyrszka of Concerned Health Professionals of New York will discuss “Health Impact Assessment for Unconventional Gas Extraction and Production” at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Cushwa Hall Room B100 at Youngstown State University.

The lecture is free and open to the public, and will focus on 10 emerging trends concerning fracking. There is free on-street parking after 5 p.m. at the metered parking spaces along Lincoln Avenue and nearby streets.

For information, visit www.tinyurl.com/YSU-F15-Energy.