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Reports: Man slaps deputy at bingo game
By Joe Gorman
YOUNGSTOWN
A West Side man is in the Mahoning County jail on $15,000 bond after he was accused of slapping a deputy sheriff Thursday at a bingo game.
Brian Larew, 50, of Imperial Street, was arraigned Friday in municipal court before Judge Robert Milich on a fourth degree felony charge of assault on a police officer and a misdemeanor charge of resisting arrest.
Reports said Larew was at Sts. Peter & Paul Ukranian Church on Thursday evening playing bingo and he was warned by a deputy from the Mahoning County Sheriff’s office, who was working security, to calm down and keep his voice down after he was swearing.
Larew then calmed down for a bit until he got up and patted a man on the head and again began swearing. Again, he was warned to calm down.
Reports said Larew walked up to the deputy and said he was “playing around,” before slapping the deputy in the face.
Since the two were so close together the deputy shoved Larew back. He fell into a chair then ran out to the parking lot, reports said. The deputy chased after Larew and told Larew to stop, which he did. He was then handcuffed and taken into custody.
Reports said Larew smelled of alcohol and complained that he did not do anything. Later when he was taken to the jail he repeated his claim that he did nothing wrong but also threatened the deputy, reports said.
Larew just came off one year of probation for a 2014 felonious assault charge where he was accused of shooting his stepson during an argument at a Market Street thrift store. The sentence was handed down in February 2015.