Two arraigned on drug charges

May 27, 2016 at 12:00a.m.

YOUNGSTOWN

A man who reports said had 26 bags of suspected marijuana in his car and a woman who had so many pills police still have not identified all of them were each arraigned Wednesday in municipal court.

Brandon Davanzo, 19, of Tibbetts-Wick Road in Girard, was arraigned before Judge Elizabeth Kobly on a charge of trafficking in marijuana.

Reports said Davanzo was arrested about 9:20 p.m. Monday on Vestal Road after a trooper with the Canfield Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol noticed a car he was driving was going over the speed limit and also had a missing brake light. Davanzo smelled heavily of marijuana, and he and two juveniles were taken out of the car and it was searched.

Reports said the trooper found the suspected marijuana in two larger bags in the trunk of the car. The trooper also reviewed video recorded from his cruiser and reports said Davanzo was heard telling his friends he hoped the trooper didn’t look in the trunk and was hopeful that because the trunk was a mess it might deter the trooper from a thorough search.

One of the people with Davanzo told the trooper that Davanzo was selling marijuana to support a child because he does not have a job, reports said.

Judge Kobly set his bond at $10,000.

Also arraigned before Judge Kobly was Lindsey Hawn, 30, of Oenta Avenue, on 13 charges of varying degrees for possession of drugs, as well as separate counts of possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of drug-abuse instruments. She was found passed out about 7 p.m. Monday behind the wheel of a car at a home in the first block of South Garland Avenue. Reports said Hawn was revived by paramedics and asked to go inside the home and leave a note before she was taken to the hospital. Reports said in the house when she reached in her purse to get something to write with an officer noticed a bottle with several pills. Reports said Hawn said she had a prescription for the pills, which were painkillers, but she was told she would be placed under arrest because that is not the proper way to carry the pills.

Inside her car, which police were checking before they had it towed, they found eight Suboxone strips on the driver’s seat in plain view and 201 pills of varying kinds. Assistant City Prosecutor Shelli Freeze told Judge Kobly there were so many pills police were still trying Wednesday to identify some of them.

There also was a mop bucket in the hatchback of her car that had six syringes with suspected heroin residue on them, two burned spoons and a crack pipe. Reports said several of the bottles the pills were found in had names of other people on them.

In court, Hawn said via video hookup from the jail she had prescriptions for all of the pills, but Freeze said police found no proof of that. Hawn was treated at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital with a police hold before she was transferred to the jail. Judge Kobly set her bond at $13,000.