Charge against Warren tattooist dismissed by court

WARREN

Warren Municipal Court this morning dismissed the breaking and entering charge filed against Aaron Chine, the well-known Warren tattooist, artist and promoter of David Grohl Alley.

His attorney, Samuel Amendolara, contacted The Vindicator this morning with the news, and it was confirmed by a clerk in Warren Municipal Court and Warren Police Detective Wayne Mackey.

Chine was charged after a woman identified Chine as the man who had run from the front of a vacant home on Willard Avenue Northeast last Tuesday.

The woman and an off-duty police officer discovered someone inside the house and copper having been cut and stacked in the basement.

Chine was arraigned on the charge in Warren Municipal Court Friday, and Judge Terry Ivanchak ordered Chine held in the Trumbull County jail without eligibility to make bond.

Mackey said he checked into claims Chine had made since his arrest that he was in the downtown Warren area at the time of the break-in, and there was surveillance video to prove it

Mackey said he viewed a video that confirmed it and made arrangements to have the charge dismissed and for Chine to be released.