2 Youngstown cops injured by man who threw woman out in cold

YOUNGSTOWN

Two city police officers were injured Thursday morning trying to take a man into custody.

Police said he had kicked a woman out of a North Belle Vista Avenue home in freezing cold weather and would not let officers in to check on six children inside.

Nicholas Kovacs, 34, was arraigned in municipal court Friday on six counts of child endangering plus counts of domestic violence, obstruction of justice and resisting arrest.

Police were called about 12:20 a.m. today to a home in the 100 block of North Belle Vista by a woman who was sitting in a car wearing nothing but a t-shirt and with no shoes on despite freezing temperatures. The woman told police she got upset at Kovacs when she found him smoking crack cocaine in a bathroom and she took his crack pipe, broke it and threw it away.

Reports said the woman told police Kovacs beceame enraged, threw her into a bathtub and body slammed her in a bedroom before throwing her out of the house and locking the door.

When police arrived the woman told them she was worried about her 6 kids inside.Kovacs came to a window holding a child, opened the window while still holding the child and told police to get off his property.

Read more about the case in Saturday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.