Facing 20 counts

Facing 20 counts

YOUNGSTOWN

A Campbell man whose Deavitt Avenue home was searched as part of a child- pornography investigation was indicted Thursday by a Mahoning County grand jury.

Joshua Baird, 39, was indicted on 20 counts of pandering obscenity involving a minor. He is in the Mahoning County jail, where he has been since his arrest last week by Campbell police after an investigation by the state Bureau of Criminal Investigation.

BCI agents served a search warrant at Baird’s home last week and took several electronic devices that had pornographic images of a young girl, the state attorney general’s office.

Baird is also a registered sex offender after two separate sexual-abuse convictions in Mahoning and Columbiana counties.

Niles shooting

NILES

Police say they believe the boy, 17, who was shot by his brother, 16, at their home in the 400 block of West Park Avenue at 1:30 p.m. Saturday was released from the hospital Sunday.

The boy was shot once in the torso or abdomen, Capt. John Marshall of the Niles Police Department said.

The younger boy was charged with felonious assault and taken to the Trumbull County Juvenile Justice Center, but Marshall said he doesn’t know whether the boy remains there.

Marshall said he doesn’t know what led up to the shooting. Marshall said Wednesday the police department is not releasing a police report on the incident because it is part of the “investigative work product” in the case.

Charges after fight

BOARDMAN

Two people face charges after township police responded to a fight at a laundromat parking lot Wednesday, according to a police report.

Police were dispatched to Washing Well Laundry on Mathews Road, where the caller said she witnessed several men and women fighting.

Police reported finding a man unconscious and bleeding in front of the building.

The fight began after the victim arrived at the laundromat and encountered the mother of his child there, according to the report. A confrontation between the two led to a fight involving numerous family members and associates.

Brittany Taylor, 23, of Youngstown is charged with assault, and Jonathan Valentin, 25, of Youngstown is charged with felonious assault.

Mosquito fogging

NILES

The city of Niles will be mosquito fogging beginning at 8 a.m. on Monday and Tuesday.

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