Devin Towns facing trafficking charges after 2 stints in prison, multiple drug arrests

YOUNGSTOWN

A man who police said had 30 bags of suspected cocaine and 73 pills in his car Monday evening has been to prison twice on felony drug charges and is currently wanted on a warrant for skipping a pretrial date in a pending drug case.

Devin Towns, 40, of Lakewood Circle, is in the Mahoning County jail on charges of aggravated trafficking in drugs; four felony counts of possession of drugs; fleeing and eluding; obstructing official business; and two warrants from common pleas court for skipping a pretrial date June 25 in a case where he faces felony charges of possession of cocaine and possession of drugs. He also faces several traffic and misdemeanor charges.

He is expected to be arraigned on the new charges in municipal court today.

He was arrested Monday evening after officers spotted a car he was driving on Marmion Avenue on the South Side that did not have a rearview mirror.

After a car and foot chase, officers reached him and when he was searched they found a bag of suspected cocaine, two bags of suspected marijuana and cash on him. When his car was searched, 30 more individually wrapped bags of suspected cocaine were found in three different places, including some in a backpack. Also found were 15 Adderall pills, 16 oxycodone pills, 42 other pills, four suboxone strips, four cellphones and more cash.

The current case he faces in common pleas court stems from a Sept. 12, 2014, arrest where he was caught in a car at East Lucius Avenue and Rush Boulevard with a bag of crack cocaine, 10 pills in his shoe and $890 in cash.

He pleaded guilty in 2009 and again in 2011 and 2013 to other felony cocaine counts, and was arrested again in 2012 on drug charges in 2012.

Read more about his history in Wednesday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.