2 in custody for August armed robbery

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

A man and a woman are in the Mahoning County jail on $75,000 bond each after being arraigned in municipal court on charges they lured a Cuyahoga Falls man to a West Side house with sex then robbed him at gunpoint of $140 and his cellphone.

Jazmin Wilkins, 23, of Crandall Avenue, and Dewey Burkes, 26, of Fairgreen Avenue, were arraigned Friday before Judge Elizabeth Kobly on a felony charge of aggravated robbery.

Reports said the man met Wilkins while he was looking online for a “sensual massage,” and arranged to meet her Aug. 28 in the first block of North Osborn Avenue for sex. Instead, at the home, two men rushed him, stuck a gun in his chest and took the money and his phone.

The third person is not yet in custody. Warrants for all three were issued Thursday in municipal court. Burkes and Wilkins were arrested Friday, according to jail records.

Burkes had been arraigned in municipal court Thursday on a misdemeanor charge of possession of marijuana before the warrant was issued for him.

Reports said the victim waited a day before making a report. He told police when he drove to the street, he passed up the address but talked to Wilkins after he was there, who told him where to go and to go to the side door.

When the man went to the door, he was robbed at gunpoint, reports said. The man told police he waited a day to make the report because he had to go back to Cuyahoga Falls to go to work.