Two arraigned in separate domestic incidents

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Two people were arraigned Monday in municipal court for separate domestic incidents.

Lakeysha Vaughn, 29, of North Navarre Avenue in Austintown, was given a bond of $35,000 by Magistrate Anthony Sertick on charges of felonious assault and a misdemeanor charge of theft.

Reports said officers were called about 11:35 p.m. Friday to a home in the first block of North Lakeview Avenue for a fight between a man and a woman with weapons. When they arrived, they found a man lying underneath a car in the driveway, and Vaughn was yelling at him.

The man told police Vaughn is the mother of his two children and the two were arguing because the man had texted another woman the previous week, reports said. The man told police he was behind the car when Vaughn backed up and knocked him down, then drove forward and backed up again over him.

Reports said Vaughn got out of the car, kicked the man, punched him and scratched him with her car keys. The victim had a scratch on his forehead and scratches on his stomach, reports said.

Vaughn told police she came to the home for dinner and tried to leave, and when she left the man fell under her car. She said she tapped the breaks on the car to try and get him to move. Vaughn was taken to the Mahoning County jail.

Arraigned on charges of burglary and domestic violence was Jayshawn Sanders, 19, of West Delason Avenue, who had a bond of $25,000 set by Sertick.

Reports said police were called about 12:25 a.m. Friday to a home in the 3000 block of Oregon Avenue, where a 19-year-old woman there told them that Sanders, the father of her child, and another man came to her apartment and knocked on the door.

The woman refused to let them in but reports said Sanders grabbed a brick, used it to break a window, then climbed inside. Reports said he chased the woman to a bathroom, kicked in the door and punched her and choked her – asking where his child was at.

The woman was able to run out of the house and call police.

Reports said a babysitter for her daughter had locked herself in another room with the child and they were unharmed.

Sanders and the other man left, but police spotted the car he was driving about 3:45 a.m. Friday at a home in the 500 block of Cohasset Avenue and took him into custody there.