Three arraigned on drug charges

January 5, 2016 at 12:00a.m.

YOUNGSTOWN

Three people arrested Saturday by city police on felony drug charges were arraigned Monday in municipal court.

Mark Poulos, 51, was arraigned before Magistrate Anthony Sertick on charges of possession of heroin and possession of crack cocaine. He was pulled over about 9:35 p.m. Saturday by officer Jessica Shields, who said in a report he failed to stop at a stop sign and she pulled him over at Rush Boulevard and East Indianola Avenue.

Reports said Poulos appeared to be very nervous but gave police consent to search him and his car. When he was searched, officers found a bag of heroin and two bags of crack cocaine, reports said.

Sertick set his bond at $12,500.

About 7:05 p.m., Joseph Yohn, 47, of Columbiana was pulled over after an officer saw him in the driver’s seat of a gold Mercedes at Brooklyn Avenue and Market Street snorting drugs before driving away. The officer then followed Yohn and pulled him over at East Indianola and Hylda avenues, reports said.

Yohn admitted using drugs, and he was covered in white powder, reports said. Reports said he told police he had just purchased two bags of heroin for $20 apiece and snorted one bag and was trying to get rid of the other one but it ended up on himself instead. He was arrested on a charge of possession of heroin, and police also found a digital scale in his car with suspected drug residue on it.

At the Mahoning County jail, corrections officers found a large bag stuffed inside a body cavity of Yohn’s, reports said. Inside the bag, they found seven bags of crack cocaine, three bags of cocaine, some loose crack cocaine, and 14 pills. Police also found $535 in cash but reports did not say where the cash was.

Yohn was arraigned on charges of possession of heroin, possession of cocaine, possession of crack cocaine, two counts of possession of drugs for the pills, and trafficking in drugs.

Assistant City Prosecutor Jeffrey Moliterno told the magistrate that Yohn has a history of drug-related offenses dating back to the 1990s. Sertick set his bond at $35,000.

About 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Cassandra Slattery, 20, of Greenville, Pa., was arrested on a charge of possession of crack cocaine after she was pulled over at Market Street and Southern Boulevard for running a stop sign. Reports said she was taken into custody because she had a warrant from the Trumbull County Sheriff’s Office, and that when she was searched, officers found three bags of crack cocaine and $273 cash on her.

Sertick set her bond at $3,500.