Arrested at racino

Arrested at racino

AUSTINTOWN

Police arrested a man they said caused a disturbance Saturday at the Hollywood Gaming at Mahoning Valley Race Course.

According to a police report, Nicholas Pisano, 60, of Canfield, was approaching other patrons when he was asked by a security guard to leave about 7:45 p.m. Saturday. Pisano refused to leave. Police said Pisano had glassy, bloodshot eyes and was slurring and stuttering as he talked.

Pisano continued to insult the security guard. He did not comply with commands to calm down or to stop cursing, according to the report.

Police said Pisano made a threatening movement toward an officer, at which time he was pressed against the wall and handcuffed. Pisano suffered a small cut to his forehead while being restrained. Police charged him with disorderly conduct.

News conference set

YOUNGSTOWN

The Community Leadership Coalition on Education will have a news conference at 5 p.m. today in front of the Youngstown Board of Education offices, 20 W. Wood St., to inform district parents and city taxpayers about duplication of services and dismantling of what the coalition calls effective school programs that amount to more than $1 million.

The Rev. Kenneth Simon, pastor of New Bethel Baptist Church, is coalition spokesman. The school board meeting will take place at 5:30 p.m. today.

Jeep falls into sinkhole

YOUNGSTOWN

A Jeep fell into a sinkhole on the city’s South Side early Monday, The Vindicator’s broadcast partner, 21 WFMJ-TV reported.

The incident occurred as a man drove through an entrance to a Burger King at Newton Square near Midlothian Boulevard about 6 a.m., according to the television station report.

The driver escaped unharmed, and tow trucks pulled the Jeep out of the hole. The incident was attributed to a waterline break that city water department crews worked to repair Monday.

Robbery reported

WARREN

A man told police two men robbed him of $5,000 as he sat in his car outside a Warren home, according to a report from 21 WFMJ-TV, The Vindicator’s broadcast partner.

The Adams Avenue Northwest man went to the police department shortly before noon Sunday to report he had just been robbed in the 2600 block of Oak Street Southwest.

The 39-year-old said he was waiting in his car for a woman to whom he owed money for repairs made to a home he recently had sold to her.

He says two men, one of them pointing a gun at him, walked up to his car and demanded he empty his pockets, including the $5,000 he says he brought to pay his debt.

The suspects told the man to look the other way while they fled, according to the report.

YSU wins competition

YOUNGSTOWN

Youngstown State University is No. 1 in the Buckeye State in this year’s RecycleMania competition, an eight-week national contest to see which colleges reduce, reuse and recycle the most on-campus waste.

YSU finished first with a recycling rate of 61 percent. YSU’s rate was 21st in the nation.

The 2017 tournament featured 320 competing schools in 46 states in the United States, the District of Columbia and Canada, with an enrollment of 4.1 million students.

For information, visit www.recyclemania.org.

YWCA gets $10K grant

YOUNGSTOWN

The YWCA of Youngstown received a $10,000 grant from Chemical Bank for its newest housing project. The five-unit project on Kensington Avenue, is addressing the need for affordable housing for low- to moderate-income families and veterans’ families at risk of homelessness.

Man arraigned

NILES

Joshua M. Richards, 34, of Autumn Drive in Warren was arraigned Monday in Niles Municipal Court on charges of safecracking, vandalism, resisting arrest and possessing criminal tools involving the First Choice Community Credit Union at 804 Union Ave.

No plea was required, and Judge Thomas Townley set bond at $5,000.

Police were alerted to an alarm drop at 3:41 a.m. Saturday and found two masked men attempting to break into an ATM at the credit union.

A Niles police officer began a foot pursuit and caught up to Richards, tackling him and making an arrest. Police still are working to arrest the other suspect, police said.

Circle K robbery

WARREN

Two men took cash and a box of cigars from Circle K, 4021 Parkman Road NW, at 2:40 a.m. Monday.

Two employees said they had gone to a building behind the store to collect supplies when two men approached them with scarves over their faces, one of them holding a gun, and followed them back to the building.

Inside the store, they got cash from the register and the cigars and fled on foot.

While investigating the robbery, Warren Township police advised they were in a vehicle pursuit, which ended on Lancer Court Northwest, and one of the three people in the car stayed behind while the others fled on foot from the car.

A Weathersfield police officer and his dog located a firearm. No charges were filed in Warren Municipal Court against the suspect who was detained and taken to the Trumbull County Jail.

Sentenced in robbery

WARREN

Terry J. Hutsenpiller, 18, of North Leavitt Road was sentenced to three years in prison Monday in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court after pleading guilty to the Feb. 22 robbery of a woman at the Sheetz gas station, 3379 Elm Road NE.

Hutsenpiller also was ordered to make restitution of $1,050 to the victim, 34, of Leavittsburg. She had withdrawn money from her bank account using an ATM inside the store that afternoon. She was going to use her income-tax check to buy a car, said her father, 59, who witnessed the incident.

Police said Huntsenpiller tackled the woman, the money fell out on the ground, and both people scrambled to pick it up. Hutsenpiller got much of it, then fled in a pickup truck, police said.

Suspect posts bond

NILES

Levi S. Dunn, 24, of Parkwood Avenue in Youngstown, was released from the Trumbull County Jail on Monday after posting $5,000 bond, charged with felonious assault. No plea was required. He’s accused of pushing a woman backward at the X-Hale Hookah Lounge at 2790 Robbins Ave. in Weathersfield Township at 2 a.m. Thursday, causing her to suffer a concussion, head laceration and two broken wrists.

The woman, 24, said she was with two friends in the lounge when Dunn, whom she knew, sat at the table next to her and called her a derogatory name. She told police she “tapped” Dunn on the back of the head and told him not to call her that.

Dunn stood up and yelled at her, causing her to back up, she said. When Dunn pushed her, she fell back and struck her head on a table or floor, she said. She blacked out for an unknown amount of time, she said.