Parents unconscious in car at Niles store

Parents unconscious in car at Niles store

NILES

A young girl went into the Dollar General Market in the Niles Plaza Shopping Center, 5120 Youngstown-Warren Road, late Thursday and asked for help because her parents would not wake up.

According to a video of the event posted on Facebook, a store employee came out of the store to determine the problem and then called 911. The call for help reached police at 5:23 p.m. when police, firefighters and other first-responder personnel were dispatched to the scene.

According to the Facebook video, there were other children in the car but the person filming the event said it was not known how many, or their ages.

The condition of the adults or what caused their unresponsive states also was not known.

Police would not comment on the incident.

Mom revived after OD

WARREN

Sarah J. Beans, 21, of Burton Street, was charged with child endangering Wednesday night after police found her unconscious in a house on Denison Avenue Northwest with her daughter, 4.

She pleaded not guilty today in Warren Municipal Court and was released from the county jail after posting $2,500 bond.

A man, 81, of Youngstown, told police Beans was giving him a ride to the Denison address Wednesday evening and having trouble keeping her eyes open.

When they arrived, Beans sat on the couch. A few minutes later, he could see that she was unresponsive and called 911.

Ambulance personnel gave her four doses of the opiate-reversal drug naloxone, reviving her, and transported her to ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital, then to county jail because of outstanding arrest warrants. The child was released to her grandmother.

2.2 pounds of pot

WARREN

Michael A. Lawrence Jr., 43, of Lucretia Drive in Liberty Township, pleaded not guilty today in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court to charges of illegal cultivation of marijuana and marijuana possession at his home.

Lawrence was secretly indicted by a Trumbull County grand jury after an investigation by the Mahoning Valley Law Enforcement Task Force. A Liberty police officer participates in the task force.

Lawrence’s indictment accuses him of committing the crimes Aug. 28 and says the quantity of the drug was more than 1,000 grams, which is 2.2 pounds.

Judge Ronald Rice set Lawrence’s bond at $10,000. He was arrested Wednesday afternoon.

3 brothers die in fire

NEW CASTLE, PA.

The Lawrence County Coroner’s office has identified the bodies of three brothers found inside a burning Shenango Township home on Circle Drive in Lawrence County Thursday morning as Richard, Robert and Daniel Fombelle.

Police are treating the deaths as suspicious, but the cause of death will not be determined pending autopsies, reported 21 WFMJ-TV, The Vindicator’s broadcast partner.

Pennsylvania State Police is investigating the deaths.

The fire broke out about 7:30 a.m.