Feeding the hungry

Feeding the hungry

YOUNGSTOWN

Through April 16, Giant Eagle customers can help provide food for those in need by tearing off a $1, $5 or $10 coupon at the cash register at any store location in Columbiana, Mahoning and Trumbull counties. The donation will be added to their grocery bill. Also, nonperishable food items may be placed in designated bins at the front of the stores.

Giant Eagle stores in the Mahoning Valley raised $100,092 in 2015 through Check Out Hunger coupons, part of the Second Harvest Food Bank of the Mahoning Valley’s Harvest for Hunger campaign during March and April.

The campaign is a collaborative effort of four food banks; but all funds raised and food collected in Columbiana, Mahoning and Trumbull counties will remain there.

Harvest for Hunger sponsors are: Giant Eagle, 21 WFMJ & WBCB, The Vindicator, Cumulus Radio Stations Y-103, K105 and HOT 101, and UFCW Local 880. For information, visit www.harvestforhunger.org.

Robbery reported

YOUNGSTOWN

A 36-year-old man claimed he was robbed late Tuesday by a man lying in the street whom he tried to help.

The victim told police he was driving at Steel Street and Oneta Avenue on the West Side when he saw a man lying on the ground. The victim went to help the man but the man got up, pulled out a gun and forced the victim back into his car.

Reports said the victim was told to drive the robber to a home at Oak Hill Avenue and New Court on the South Side, but the victim refused. The robber then took $520 cash out of the victim’s wallet. The victim then drove away.

Drug charges

YOUNGSTOWN

A North Lima man was booked into the Mahoning County jail Tuesday after officers found suspected crack cocaine and heroin in a car in which he was a passenger.

Officers spotted a car about 4:45 p.m. in front of a known drug house in the 200 block of Potomac Avenue on the South Side. The officers got permission to search the car from the driver. When they did, they found the drugs in the door next to the passenger seat where Randal Sparks, 50, was sitting, a report said.

Sparks was booked into the jail on charges of possession of heroin and possession of crack cocaine.

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