Police: Man caught selling marijuana downtown

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

It took three calls, but police arrested a man downtown Tuesday afternoon on charges that he was selling marijuana.

Whittington Davis, 29, of Warren, was arraigned Wednesday in municipal court before Magistrate Anthony Sertick on a charge of trafficking in marijuana. His bond was set at $7,500.

Davis was arrested about 4:30 p.m. in the 100 block of West Federal Street after police answered a third-straight call about two men and a woman in that area selling drugs.

Reports said Davis matched the description of one of the people who was reported to be selling drugs. An officer asked for permission to search Davis, which he granted, reports said.

When Davis was searched, police found nine individual bags of suspected marijuana, reports said. Davis was taken into custody and taken to the Mahoning County jail.

Reports do not say what happened to the other two people who were reported to be with Davis, but police did not record any more arrests in that area of downtown.

Records show Davis was recently released from federal prison after serving a 19-month sentence for pleading guilty to a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Court records show he had a .380-semiautomatic pistol in February 2014, a violation because of a 2007 conviction he had in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court on a cocaine charge.

He was sentenced in August 2014.

During his arraignment via video hookup from the jail, Davis said the person who called police told officers he was not selling the drugs but officers arrested him anyway.