Probing dog’s shooting

Probing dog’s shooting

YOUNGSTOWN

The police department’s Internal Affairs Division is investigating after an officer shot a dog about 9 a.m. Tuesday in the 2000 block of Drummond Avenue on the East Side.

Reports said an officer was at a home to follow up on a theft complaint when a pit bull charged down the driveway. The dog followed the officer as he retreated behind his cruiser and the officer then shot the dog three times in self-defense, said Lt. Brian Butler, head of Internal Affairs.

Butler said the dog was taken to Animal Charity and it was put down. Butler said the pit bull had a history of biting people.

Drugs found in stop

AUSTINTOWN

Police said they found suspected cocaine during a stop Monday night.

An officer approached a vehicle in the parking lot of a North Edgehill Avenue bar after seeing the driver reach toward the floor board. He reportedly smelled marijuana and saw marijuana and a pipe in the driver’s door handle area. He also saw a female passenger place rolled-up currency in her bra.

When conducting a search, the officer said he found a cellphone covered in white powder on the floor. The driver, Douglas Stout, 34, of Canfield, told police he had cocaine in the center console. Police found two packets of suspected cocaine in trifold envelopes.

Stout is charged with drug-abuse (cocaine), drug-abuse (marijuana), two counts of drug paraphernalia and permitting drug abuse in a motor vehicle.

Kassandria Cole, 25, of Leetonia, the passenger, is charged with drug paraphernalia for having a rolled-up $50 bill.

Family Dollar robbed

WARREN

A man robbed the Family Dollar store on Parkman Road Northwest at 4:45 p.m. Monday.

Police said the robber had his face covered and was wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt. Employees said they think this was the same robber as the last time the store was robbed.

Arrested in meat theft

BOARDMAN

Township police Monday took custody of a Niles woman wanted in connection to the theft of nearly $600 worth of steak, shrimp and cured meats from an area grocery store.

Stacey Stauffer, 29, was arrested on a warrant of complicity to theft involving the incident reported last fall at Rulli Bros. on South Avenue.

According to a police report, a store manager reported Oct. 18 a man and woman entered the store. “The female went directly to the meat counter and ordered two large cuts of filet mignon. She then picked up three bags of large shrimp and about 10 miscellaneous packages of cured Italian meats,” according to the report. The man reportedly concealed the items in his sweatshirt, and both left the store after being approached by an employee. The value of the stolen products was estimated to be $575.

Honoring Choffin seniors

YOUNGSTOWN

The Rev. Elizabeth Powell Scholarship Fund of the Youngstown Chapter of the NAACP will honor graduating seniors in Choffin Career and Technical Center’s programs with a luncheon from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. Friday at Choffin, 200 E. Wood St.

Tim Callion, business manager and secretary-treasurer for the Plumbers and Pipefitters Union Local 396, will be one of the speakers. Callion is a black American who completed the union’s apprenticeship program and went on to become business manager.

This is a fundraiser for the Powell scholarship fund, and there will be a bucket auction and other fundraising activities at the luncheon. For information, contact George Freeman Jr., chapter president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, at 330-782-9777.