Two taken into custody for resisting arrest

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Two people were taken into custody Wednesday in separate incidents and charged with resisting arrest.

About 9:15 p.m., officer Marcin Stachowicz, who was on patrol with his police dog Majo, pulled over a car driven by Tashaun Letlow, 25, of Corodova Avenue after reports said he saw Letlow make a wide turn then run a red light.

Reports said when Stachowicz walked up to the car, he could smell marijuana, and when he asked Letlow for his information, Letlow refused, saying he would not give his information until he knew why he was being stopped. Stachowicz told him he would reveal why he was being pulled over when he received the information, reports said.

The car was still in drive and Letlow refused several requests to put it in park, but he eventually did so. Letlow got out of the car but refused to put his hands behind his back, but Stachowicz was still able to handcuff him, reports said.

Letlow denied smoking marijuana and said someone who was in the car before him had smoked it. There was a small child in the back seat, reports said.

Letlow also refused to get into a cruiser, and Stachowicz and other officers had to get him inside.

Police found a broken-up marijuana cigar in the car. The child’s mother came for the child. Letlow is in the Mahoning County jail on charges of obstructing official business and resisting arrest and is expected to be arraigned in municipal court today.

About 10:15 a.m., police responded to a call of a fight between a man and woman in the 2900 block of Oregon Avenue, and when they arrived, they found the woman in a car. Reports said the woman told officers she had been arguing with Jawon Anderson, 23, of West LaClede Avenue, and that he had forced his way inside her home and she ran into the car but not before he broke a window in the car.

Police got inside and found Anderson, reports said, but he ran away from officers and, at one point, tried to crawl away before he was taken into custody.

Anderson is charged with resisting arrest, and he also had a warrant for driving under suspension from municipal court.

Anderson was taken to the Mahoning County jail and is expected to be arraigned today.