Suspect in break-in nabbed by marshals

Suspect in break-in nabbed by marshals

BOARDMAN

Members of the U.S. Marshals Service apprehended the suspect in an August jewelry store break-in.

Anthony Carson, 19, was arrested on a warrant Wednesday at his Brandon Avenue home in Struthers. He is charged with breaking and entering for a reported theft from Direct Jewelry Outlet on Boardman-Canfield Road.

An Aug. 20 police report details that incident, in which someone smashed a door and several jewelry cases, and stole an estimated $1,000 worth of jewelry. The damage to the business was estimated at $4,300.

During a police search at that time, officers reportedly found jewelry and personal items strewn in an adjacent parking lot, the roadway on Boardman-Canfield Road and Mill Creek Park golf course.

Carson was taken to the Mahoning County jail.

Warren traffic death

WARREN

Gregory Thomas, 53, of Warren was pronounced dead at ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital after he was involved in a two-car crash Thursday afternoon on East Market Street.

Warren police said Thomas was driving north on Kenmore Avenue and failed to stop at the intersection, causing a collision with a van.

The 12:06 p.m. crash did not injure a passenger in his car, Robyn Smeltzer, 35, of Girard, or the driver of the van, police said.

DeWine in Valley

BOARDMAN

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine will visit Boardman Center Middle School at 9:30 a.m. today to observe the Boardman school district’s Brain Power Drug Education Program.

The program, developed by the National Institute of Drug Abuse, teaches students from kindergarten through ninth grade about the effects of drug abuse on the brain.

School administrators from both Boardman and Mahoning districts and Brain Power Program instructor Nancy Pommerening will join DeWine

Head Start grant

WARREN

Trumbull Community Action Program’s Head Start received a $2.4 million federal grant, U.S. Rep Tim Ryan of Howland, D-13th, has announced.

The grant is part of the Head Start: Full Year Part Day Handicapped Training and Technical Assistance program though the Department of Health and Human Services. The grant is to fund the program from Nov. 1, 2015, through Oct. 31, 2016.

Appeal for C-130s

WASHINGTON, D.C.

During a Thursday hearing of the U.S. House Defense Subcommittee on Appropriations, U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan of Howland, D-13th, urged Deborah Lee James, secretary of the Air Force, and Gen. Mark Welsh, the Air Force’s chief of staff, to upgrade the current fleet of C-130s in use by the Air Force Reserves 910th Airlift Wing at the Youngstown Air Reserve Station in Vienna.

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