Parents angered

Parents angered

YOUNGSTOWN

Parents are demanding answers from Youngstown City Schools officials after more than 20 students weren’t dropped off by their school buses at or near their home late Monday afternoon.

Denise Dick, district spokeswoman, said elementary and middle-school students were being driven home from school later as a part of an after-school learning program.

The elementary students were to be dropped off door to door, and the middle-school students were to be dropped off at the corner near their homes.

Due to some confusion, however, 20 to 30 students were dropped off at the bus garage on Teamster Drive. Dick said the district is trying to do everything it can to discover what caused the confusion and work with parents to prevent any further incidents.

Students charged

BOARDMAN

Two Boardman High School students are facing drug-related charges after a search and arrest Friday.

School administrators told police four students arrived tardy at school and “smelled of marijuana,” according to the police report. Among the students were Jeremy Farris, 16, of Reserve Court, and Noah Baun, 16, of Squirrel Hill Drive. After interviewing all four, school officials discovered the students did arrive to school on time, but left in Baun’s car to smoke marijuana.

After a drug search, Farris revealed he had one bag of marijuana and another filled with prescription pills including Xanax.

A search of Baun’s car revealed a jar of marijuana, a grinder and a second bag of pills. The other two juveniles had no illegal items after their searches.

Farris was charged with trafficking drugs in a school zone. Both Farris and Baun are charged with two counts of drug possession and one count of marijuana possession. They are at the Martin P. Joyce Juvenile Justice Center.

Release denied

YOUNGSTOWN

A judge has denied a request for early release from a man he sentenced to 10 years in prison in September 2010 for involuntary manslaughter and kidnapping with a firearm specification.

Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court denied the request from Joseph Valentin, 28, of Youngstown, who pleaded guilty in the shooting death of Marlon Chatman, 28, on the city’s South Side and the kidnapping of another man June 17, 2010.

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