Drug, gun charges

Drug, gun charges

CLEVELAND

A federal grand jury has indicted a Youngstown man on gun and drug charges, the U.S. attorney said.

Rashad Mathews, 28, was charged with possessing with intent to distribute marijuana and possessing a rifle and ammunition and four pistols in 2015.

Mathews was charged with being a felon with a gun because of a 2007 felony conviction in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court. The case was investigated by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

New date for Trumbull hearings

WARREN

The Trumbull County commissioners have set a different day to have budget hearings a second time than the one they initially announced.

The hearings will begin at 9 a.m. Dec. 12 and continue every 15 minutes until 2:45 p.m.

The commissioners are having the hearings again after failing to notify the public and news media before the first hearings, held Nov. 21 and 22.

Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins advised the commissioners that having the hearings a second time was necessary because it is likely a judge would invalidate any decisions arising from the hearings if legal action were to be filed.

Peace Light in Valley

YOUNGSTOWN

Greater Western Reserve Boy Scout Council will transfer the Peace Light from Bethlehem to JMJ Spiritual Connections II store, 3408 Canfield Road, Cornersburg, today.

Members of Cub Scout Pack 22 and Boy Scout Troop 22 of St. Christine Church will present the light to the store. The Peace Light arrived at the council last week.

The light will be available for distribution to the public and churches during business hours from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays starting this weekend through Jan. 7.

Candles or lanterns are good tools to take home the light, but are not provided. The container should be protected from wind.

Prostitution charges

CAMPBELL

A city woman was arrested Friday morning at her home and taken to the Mahoning County jail after offering herself and her daughter, 21, for prostitution to an undercover city police officer.

Tina M. Schell, 50, of Robinson Road, was arraigned in Campbell Municipal Court on prostitution, procuring prostitution and possessing criminal tools. Bond was set at $6,000. She remained in jail Friday night.

A citizen’s tip led the police department’s new Special Investigations Unit to an advertisement on Backpage.com, according to 21 WFMJ-TV, The Vindicator’s broadcast partner. Schell’s daughter has not been charged. Tina Schell told police she was selling herself to pay a high water bill.

Court appearance

STRUTHERS

Sean Dixson, 39, accused of barricading himself in an 8th Street home with four children inside Monday night, appeared Friday in Struthers Municipal Court.

Dixson was brought to court from St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital where he has been under observation, according to 21 WFMJ-TV, The Vindicator’s broadcast partner. Dixson is charged with two counts of assaulting police officers, two counts of felonious assault, four counts of child endangering and two counts of vandalism. Bond was set at $55,500.

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