Two arrested for interfering with investigation

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Police took two women into custody Wednesday on obstruction of official business charges after reports said they refused to cooperate with an officer who was called to investigate a fight.

Caralissa Scott, 30, of Mayfield Avenue and Samantha Miller, 27, of Ravenwood Avenue, were each taken to the Mahoning County jail and released later on summons, reports said, after an officer was called about 11:20 a.m. for a report of a fight in the 600 block of West Boston Avenue.

Reports said an officer saw a car leaving a house and a group of women walking away. Someone at the home told the officer the people leaving were involved in an argument, reports said.

The officer pulled over the car and asked the women who were walking to stay where they were so he could get their names and ask them what was happening. Reports said they told the officer they did not have to listen to him and kept walking.

Scott told the officer he would lose his job and Miller was recording the officer with her phone, reports said. The officer told the women all he wanted to do was get their names and ask them what had happened, but they refused to cooperate. When Miller walked away again, she was placed in handcuffs, reports said.

Reports said Scott was then “inches away” from the officer and yelled at him so she was taken into custody also.

A woman in the car said the argument everyone was involved in was over a tax return and a debt, reports said.