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YPD arrests two, cites three on drug charges
By Joe Gorman
YOUNGSTOWN
Police arrested two people and cited three other people over the weekend on drug charges.
Tyron Scott, 19, of Glenmont Avenue, is in the Mahoning County jail $15,000 bond after his arraignment Monday in municipal court before Magistrate Anthony Sertick on a charge of possession of heroin.
Scott was arrested about 2:10 a.m. Monday, after officer Robert DiMaiolo spotted a rental car he was driving pull into the drive of a vacant home in the 800 block of Cornell Avenue. Scott then got out of the car and ran toward the back of a nearby home, reports said.
When DiMaiolo shined a light behind the home, Scott came out with his hands up. When officers searched where Scott had run to, officer Jacob Short found a bag of suspected heroin in the bushes, reports said. There was more than $2,100 in the car and several cellphones that were ringing “nonstop,” reports said.
Assistant Prosecutor Jeffrey Moliterno told the magistrate Scott has a pending drug charge after being arrested by Boardman police. Court records show Scott was arrested Jan. 4 on a felony charge of tampering with evidence and misdemeanor charges of possession of drugs and obstructing official business.
Sertick said two drug arrests in less than a month, plus the large amount of cash and phones found in the car he was driving, called for a significant bond.
Chere Clinton, 28, of Masury, was taken to the jail about 11:10 p.m. Friday after a car she was a passenger in was pulled over on Cleveland Avenue for failing to signal for a turn.
Reports said when an officer approached the car, she dropped a bag of suspected crack cocaine on the floor, and when she was taken out of the car, there was a bag of suspected crack underneath her legs.
Clinton was arraigned in municipal court on a charge of possession of crack cocaine. Sertick set her bond at $5,000.
About 8:20 p.m. Saturday, Richard Balik, 32, of Pulaski, Pa., was cited with driving under suspension and possession of drug paraphernalia; and Stacy Cantrell, 28, of Boardman, was cited with possessing drug-abuse instruments and possession of drug paraphernalia after a car Balik was driving was pulled over in a 1231 Market St. parking lot for a malfunctioning break light.
Reports said Balik told officers right away that his license was suspended in Pennsylvania, and when he got out of the car to be written a citation, a crack pipe was found on the floor board near the driver’s seat. When Cantrell was taken out of the car, she told police she had a needle and a crack pipe and she gave the items to police, reports said. They were both issued citations and given a court date.
About 8:50 a.m. Saturday, Amanda Larson, 34, of Albert Street, was cited with possessing a drug-abuse instrument after an officer pulled over a truck she was a passenger in at Logan and Halleck avenues for making an improper turn. Reports said an officer spotted the truck leaving a known drug house at Ohio and Dennick avenues.
Reports said Larson kept reaching under a pillow in the truck, and she was taken out when the driver gave consent to have the truck searched. Reports said the officer found a used syringe underneath the seat where Larson was sitting.
Larson also had a warrant from Hubbard police, so she was taken to Hubbard and turned over to an officer there, reports said.