Parks case reassigned

Parks case reassigned

BOARDMAN

The man arrested last week by Mill Creek MetroParks police for allegedly drawing anti-Semitic graffiti at various park locations appeared in Mahoning County Area Court on Tuesday.

Scott Spencer, 25, of Hood Drive in Canfield, is charged with felony-five ethnic intimidation and misdemeanor criminal mischief. He pleaded not guilty to the misdemeanor charge. No plea was accepted for the felony offense, according to court records. Spencer remains free on bond. Scheduling of another court appearance is pending, as the case has been reassigned to Mahoning County Area Court in Canfield after Judge Joseph M. Houser recused himself.

The charges stem from reported incidents in which anti-Semitic messages were found at multiple locations in the park over a several-day span.

Car grazes child

YOUNGSTOWN

Police are investigating after a child was grazed by a car while getting off a city school bus about 2:30 p.m. Monday at High Street and Rockview Avenue on the South Side.

Reports said the car grazed the child then drove away.

The child did not suffer any major injuries, reports said. Police were still waiting to hear back from her family Tuesday, a spokesman for the department’s Accident Investigation Unit said.

Facing drug charges

WARREN

Jonathan M. Barnes Jr., 25, of Youll Street in Niles, has been indicted on charges of heroin trafficking and heroin possession with a specification of having a weapon.

Police seized 3 ounces of suspected heroin and arrested Barnes when they raided a home in the Carnegie Arms Apartments on Youll Street on May 20. Police recovered a handgun, suspected marijuana, scales, packaging materials, drug-abuse instruments and Barnes’ vehicle, police said.

Barnes will be arraigned at 1 p.m. Tuesday in Warren Municipal Court. If convicted, he could get more than 20 years in prison.

Warren man indicted

WARREN

Ja Tavion Powell, 21, of Clearwater Street Northwest, was indicted Tuesday by a Trumbull County grand jury on charges of cocaine trafficking, cocaine possession, heroin trafficking and heroin possession.

The charges stem from his arrest Aug. 3 in the Warren Heights apartment parking lot on Peace Avenue Northwest.

Powell was one of three men charged during an investigation in which police found suspected drugs and $1,354 in cash on Powell.

Dog bites owner

WARREN

A man, 54, of Tod Avenue Southwest suffered lacerations to his arm and leg from a pit bull dog belonging to him and his wife Monday night.

The man said the dog attacked him as he went to kiss his wife goodnight. The dog lunged at him and bit down on his right elbow, the man said.

The dog would not let go until he choked the dog, the man said. The dog then bit his right thigh and only stopped when his wife was able to get the dog off.

The man received several stitches for large puncture wounds at ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital.

The couple was advised to contact the Warren dog warden and quarantine the dog for 10 days.