Tyrone Peakes withdraws as Youngstown council candidate

YOUNGSTOWN — Tyrone Peakes, an independent candidate for Youngstown’s 6th Ward city council seat, has withdrawn from the Nov. 3 general election.

With Peakes’ departure from the race, the remaining 6th Ward candidates are Democrat Anita Davis and Victoria Allen, an independent.

Peakes ran for the 5th Ward seat in 2003, losing that election, and was removed from the 2007 ballot as an independent candidate. He was disqualified in 2007 because he was a member of the Mahoning County Republican central committee and thus not an independent under state law.