Crisis Intervention Team training planned

Crisis Intervention Team training planned

WARREN

The Trumbull County Mental Health and Recover Board and the Ohio Chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness are sponsoring the county’s 14th Crisis Intervention Team training for law-enforcement officers at 8 a.m. today through Friday and Oct. 20-21.

The first four days of training take place in the Trumbull Metropolitan Authority’s ground floor conference rooms, 4076 Youngstown Road. The final day of training and commencement exercises will take place at W.D. Packard Music Hall, 1703 Mahoning Ave.

The training is free to county law-enforcement agencies and focuses on providing basic information on mental illness and addiction and practical techniques for de-escalating crises.

A total of 180 police and corrections officers from 28 jurisdictions have completed the training in Trumbull County since 2006.

For information, contact John Myers at 330-675-2765, ext. 110, or jmyers@trumbullmhrb.org.

Couple killed in crash

A crash on U.S. Route 70 in Hot Springs, Ark., on Monday night involving an Arkansas State Patrol trooper resulted in the death of a former Austintown woman.

Cassandra Braun, 26, was driving a silver Chevrolet Malibu on Route 70 when the trooper, reportedly just starting a high-speed pursuit of a speeder, crashed into her car.

Braun, who attended Austintown schools in the late 1990s, and her boyfriend, TaVon Jenkins, 27, were pronounced dead at the scene. The trooper was in serious condition.

Braun and Jenkins had just moved to Arkansas from Florida. She was recently transferred to the state to manage a newly opened Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant. The Hot Springs Police Department is investigating the crash.

Police report suggests 3 overdose deaths

WARREN

A police report released Tuesday suggests there were three drug overdose deaths on three-consecutive days in the city over the weekend.

In addition to possible overdose deaths of a woman, 33, Saturday morning on East Avenue and a woman, 31, Sunday afternoon at the Riverview Motel on Parkman Road Northwest, a man, 31, of Cedar Avenue in Niles, was found dead in a home on Linda Drive Northwest at 2 p.m. Friday.

A man and woman went to the Linda address to see if the man could fix the home’s furnace. They found the man dead in the living room on his knees with his head and arms on the couch.

Woman reports being robbed early Sunday

WARREN

A 28-year-old city woman reported being robbed of $210 in cash as she walked along Robert Avenue Northwest at 7:05 a.m. Sunday.

The woman said a man in his late 20s, wearing a light-blue hooded sweatshirt, dark pants and dark shoes, approached her and threatened to shoot her to death if she didn’t give him money.

“Initially [she] stated that she replied that she didn’t have any,” the report said. As they walked further, she handed him money, but said she said she told the man she “had to feed her kids,” and gave him half of the money she had.

Man faces charge of criminal trespassing

BOARDMAN

Officers arrested a township man on a charge of criminal trespassing at a store he was banned from after he was caught stealing from it in the summer.

According to the report, officers arrested Kenneth Davis, 35, of Market Street, at the cologne counter in J.C. Penney, 7401 Market St., after a store employee reported he was trespassing after being banned from the premises by Judge Joseph M. Houser in June.

Davis told officers he wasn’t aware of the warning to remain away from the property, reports said.

Officers found Davis had a warrant for his arrest in Struthers as well. Davis was advised of his court date at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at Mahoning County Area Court.

Block watch to meet

YOUNGSTOWN

The Four Square Block Watch will meet at 6 p.m. Thursday at Greater Friendship Baptist Church, 646 Lakewood Ave.

The speaker will be Anika Jacobs of the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp.

May buy dump truck

GIRARD

City council is reviewing legislation to purchase a dump truck with a snowplow for no more than $83,600 from FYDA Freightliner of Youngstown. Council gave the legislation its first reading Tuesday. It typically votes on passage after three readings.