City woman arrested after kicking paramedic

YOUNGSTOWN — Police say a Willow Street woman was arrested for assault early Sunday morning after she was found drunk on a porch and kicked a paramedic in the head several times.

Reports said police were called about 8:40 a.m. to a home in the 300 block of North Truesdale Avenue for a report of a woman on a porch and when they arrived they found V’Aira Janelle Vaughn-Lewis, 21, lying down with the dry heaves.

Reports said her speech was slurred and she smelled heavily of alcohol.

Vaughn-Lewis told police she came to visit a man in the home with whom she has a “side relationship,” but he would not let her inside, reports said. Reports said officers asked the woman if someone could give her a ride home because she appeared to be very drunk and Vaughn-Lewis told them she wanted the man in the house to give her a ride home.

However, the man in the house told police that “rides home” are not part of the “benefits” of a side relationship and he refused to give Vaughn-Lewis a ride home, reports said.

Because of her condition and also because Vaughn-Lewis refused to tell police who could take her home, an ambulance was called for her, reports said.

Reports said she became irate when police took her cell phone and she kicked a paramedic in the head and face several times before she could be restrained.

She was examined at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital before she was transferred to the Mahoning County jail, reports said.