Business robbed

Business robbed

MASURY

Police are still searching for a 6-foot-tall man wearing a black hat, metal-rimmed sunglasses, a black zip-up hooded jacket and a black backpack who robbed the Express Cash Advance, 850 South Irvine Ave., at 9 a.m. Wednesday.

The man pointed at an item in his jacket pocket and ordered a worker to the ground, where he tied up her hands and ordered her to give up the money, then locked her in a room near the back of the business.

After the suspect left, the victim alerted someone from a nearby business, who contacted police, Brookfield police said. The robber got $8,000 in cash. Anyone with information is asked to call Brookfield police at 330-448-6960.

Candidate pulls out

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Tyrone Peakes, an independent candidate for Youngstown’s 6th Ward city council seat, has withdrawn from the Nov. 3 general election.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

Bucket Day for kids

BOARDMAN

Participating Ace Hardware stores across the country will conduct their third annual Bucket Day today to benefit local Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.

Customers can purchase a Children’s Miracle Network bucket for $5 and fill it with tools and materials. Customers will receive a discount of 20 percent off of everything they can fit into their bucket. Proceeds from all buckets purchased at local Ace Hardware locations will benefit Akron Children’s Hospital Mahoning Valley.

Mahoning Valley-area Ace Hardware locations participating are: Ace Hardware of Columbiana, 149 N. Main St., Columbiana; Handyman Supply Inc., 4455 Mahoning Ave. NW, Champion; Handyman Supply Inc., 455 Elm Road, Warren; Middleton Ace Hardware, 44998 Crestview Ave., Columbiana; Handyman Supply Inc., 3497 state Route 5, Cortland; and Village Ace Hardware, 10395 Main St., New Middletown.

Two needles found

YOUNGSTOWN

Police said they found two needles in the arm of a man passed out from a heroin overdose Thursday.

Officers were called to the 1600 block of East Midlothian Boulevard about 4:50 p.m. to assist paramedics treating Gordon Dale Davis II, 25, who was on a floor in a basement bathroom.

Reports said two needles were in Davis’ arm, one empty and one full of suspected heroin residue.

Davis was taken to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital with a police hold for charges of possession of heroin and possession of drug abuse instruments.

Aggravated burglary

NEWTON FALLS

Kristopher G. Black, 39, of Roosevelt Street Northwest in Warren was released from the Trumbull County jail Tuesday after posting $2,500 bond in Newton Falls Municipal Court on an aggravated burglary charge.

He entered no plea.

Black was arrested by a Trumbull County deputy sheriff Monday afternoon in Champion Township after a Southington man reported that Black, whom he said he did not know, showed up at his home on Hoffman-Norton Road.

Black accused the victim of stealing his four-wheeler, then forced his way into the victim’s house and assaulted him. Police said they stopped a vehicle later that had a four-wheeler on a trailer and charged Black with aggravated burglary.