YPD seizes three guns serving warrants

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Police arrested three people on weapons charges Wednesday in two separate homes while serving search warrants investigating drug activity.

At a 49 S. Portland Ave. home, officers found a shotgun, a .22-caliber rifle, ammunition and a bag of marijuana.

Arrested on charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm were Charleston Jennings, 33, and Justin Patterson, 26.

They were both taken to the Mahoning County jail.

It is the second time since June 1 that a warrant was served on the street while investigating drug activity.

In the first search, police found six guns, including an assault rifle, and $3,000 worth of crack cocaine.

A man taken into custody there has since been indicted by a grand jury on gun and drug charges.

About 4:55 p.m., officers found a semiautomatic handgun, two scales, a bag of crack cocaine, fentanyl and a suboxone strip at a home on Wirt Street.

Arrested there on a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm was Alan Johnson, 30.

Arrested on a charge of possession of crack cocaine was Clifford Raynovich, 38, of Liberty.

Reports said Rayonvich had a bag of crack cocaine in his hands when police encountered him at the home.

They were both also taken to the jail.