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Separate incidents lead to two domestic arrests
By Joe Gorman
YOUNGSTOWN
Two women were booked into the Mahoning County jail over the weekend in separate incidents involving attacks on men.
Evelyn Martinez, 42, of Kenn-sington Avenue, was arraigned in municipal court Monday on a charge of domestic violence and felonious assault. She was arrested at her home about 7:25 p.m. Saturday. Visiting Judge John Solovan set her bond at $20,000.
Reports said police were called to the home by a woman, who said she had stabbed her boyfriend and she would be waiting for them. When officers arrived they found Martinez, who told them through an interpreter that she had argued with her ex-boyfriend and had followed him outside of the house with a knife.
Reports said the boyfriend then turned and faced her holding a blunt object, and she then stabbed him in the arm and ran away, dropping the knife in a nearby yard. Police could not find the knife.
The victim said he was moving out of the home and Martinez did not want him to leave. She slashed two of the tires on his vehicle in an attempt to make him stay, reports said.
About 12:15 a.m. Sunday, Robin Walton, 56, of Leffingwell Road in Canfield Township, was arrested at her home on charges of domestic violence and felonious assault after reports said deputies with the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office responded to a gunfire call at her home.
Reports said on the way to the home they were told Walton’s husband, the victim, had left the home, and deputies found him on state Route 45, where he told them he and Walton had argued over money. When he didn’t leave after she told him to, he said she grabbed a gun and fired a shot at him. When he was in his vehicle to leave, she then fired another shot at him, reports said.
Deputies and officers from Goshen police then went to the home, where they ordered Walton out, and she complied, reports said. Inside, Walton told police she had three weapons, including a .38-caliber revolver, a semiautomatic handgun and a .12-gauge shotgun. Reports said deputies found three spent cartridge casings inside the cylinder of the revolver.
All three guns were taken, reports said, and Walton was taken to the county jail after she was questioned by detectives.
Court records show that Walton will be arraigned Thursday in Mahoning County Area Court in Sebring.