Man reports being stabbed in the arm

Man reports being stabbed in the arm

YOUNGSTOWN

Reports said a 34-year-old West Warren Avenue man told police Sunday he was stabbed somewhere on Market Street.

Police were called to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital about 3:40 p.m., where the man told them he just finished cutting a lawn on a street off Market Street when a man asked him for a cigarette.

When the victim said he did not smoke and was putting his lawn mower in the trunk of his car, he was stabbed in the arm. The victim said he punched the suspect and then drove to the hospital. He received stitches for a deep cut, reports said.

Reports said the man’s car was covered in blood, and he also has a warrant on a drug charge from Georgia.

Funds for MetroParks

CANFIELD

The Ohio Public Works Commission has awarded Mill Creek MetroParks $43,980 from the commission’s Clean Ohio Conservation Fund.

Those funds will cover 75 percent of the $58,640 cost of acquiring five undeveloped parcels on the west side of Glenwood Avenue and the south side of Devonshire Drive.

Steve Avery, director of MetroParks Planning & Operations, said the parcels, which comprise 2.86 acres, are in wooded areas adjacent to park land.

The acquisition is part of an effort by the MetroParks to obtain and preserve open space in the Glenwood Avenue corridor, he said.

Defense fund hike

WARREN

The Trumbull County commissioners approved a $61,548 increase in the amount the county will pay to the Ohio Public Defender’s Office in the new fiscal year that began July 1.

The Ohio Public Defender’s Office has a county branch that provides legal representation for poor county defendants. It’s often known as indigent defense.

The increase is the result of the state reducing the amount it reimburses to counties by 3 percent in the two-year budget signed by Gov. John Kasich at the end of June, Commissioner Mauro Cantalamessa said.

Sobriety checkpoint

CANFIELD

Mahoning County Operating a Vehicle Impaired Task Force will be conducting a sobriety checkpoint this weekend. Details will be released later in the week.

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