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Man charged with punching 2nd doctor

YOUNGSTOWN

A man who pleaded no contest in 2015 to charges he punched a doctor at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital and entered the same plea in 2014 for assaulting a hospital police officer was arrested Tuesday after reports said he punched another doctor at the hospital.

Julius Riley, 39, of Youngstown, was arraigned Wednesday in municipal court on charges of assault and criminal trespass. Mercy Health police arrested him after reports said he punched a doctor in the face about 3 p.m. Tuesday. Reports said the doctor tried to comfort Riley, who was brooding, and Riley punched him in the nose.

Court records show in the 2014 and 2015 cases he was found guilty, issued fines and placed on probation.

Visiting Judge Barbara Watson set Riley’s bond at $5,000. He was in the Mahoning County jail as of press time.

Man killed in crash on Shenango bridge

SHARPSVILLE, PA.

A West Salem Township man was killed in a head-on collision on North Walnut Street on the bridge that spans the Shenango River here shortly after 4:30 p.m. Wednesday. Dead is John Thomas Moore, 52, according to 21 WFMJ-TV, The Vindicator’s broadcast partner. Sharpsville and Pennsylvania State police are investigating.

3 men plead guilty in home invasion

YOUNGSTOWN

Two of three men indicted in a Struthers home invasion pleaded guilty Wednesday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court to charges of aggravated robbery and aggravated burglary.

Prosecutors are recommending sentences of four years each for Evan Cleland, 26, of Artmar Drive, Austintown, and Michael Fitzpatrick, 25, of Melrose Place, Boardman. A third defendant, Devon Moreland, 26, of Southern Boulevard, is expected to plead guilty Monday.

The three were indicted in May 2015 on charges of breaking into a Harvey Street home and stealing drugs and electronic items from a couple inside.

Sentencings will take place at a later date.

Theft from bedroom

WARREN

A woman in her 70s of Guarnieri Drive Northeast awoke at 4 a.m. Wednesday to find a man standing next to her bed taking her cellphone from the night stand.

The man and a second person took the phone and a purse and wallet from another room and fled, she said. Police determined that the overhead garage door had been left up, and the door into the house from the garage had been left unlocked.

Guilty of officer assault

WARREN

Shyonna D. Williams, 20, of Cleveland, pleaded guilty this week in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court to felony assault on a police officer. It’s related to a May 13 call for police to a purported theft at the Sears Department Store in the Eastwood Mall.

A Niles officer tried to arrest Williams because of a warrant out of Geauga County, but she jumped out of a chair and punched the officer in the face and neck.

The punch caused the officer to drop the handcuffs he was holding and become dizzy, he said. The officer punched Williams back and brought her under control with help from another officer. After Williams advised she was pregnant, she was taken to ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital. The officer suffered injuries to his shoulder and knee.

Williams will be sentenced to up to 18 months in prison after the Trumbull County Adult Probation Department conducts a presentence investigation.

Arrested after crash

WARREN

Keith L. Adams Jr., 19, of Adelaide Avenue Southeast, was indicted Wednesday on charges of failure to comply with the orders of a police officer, improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle and cocaine possession related to a December car crash into a Girard pizza shop.

Weathersfield police said they chased Adams from Weathersfield Township into Girard, where Adams crashed into the Melfi & Santangelo Pizza Parlor and Italian Deli on North State Street.

Girard Mayor James Melfi, who owns the shop, estimated damage at $35,000. Police arrested Adams after he tried to flee on foot.

Coffee, doughnut series

WARREN

The National Packard Museum, 1899 Mahoning Ave., will present a coffee-and-doughnut educational seminar series at 11 a.m. Saturday .

The seminar, “Restoration v. Preservation: How to Care for Historic Motorcycles,” will be presented by Derek Moore. Moore is the Frederick C. and Kathleen S. Crawford Curator of Transportation, Crawford Auto Aviation Collection, Western Reserve Historical Society of Cleveland.

It is open to the public and free with paid admission to the museum.

For information, visit www.packardmuseum.org or call 330-394-1899.