Boardman man arrested for drug trafficking

Staff report

BOARDMAN

After serving a search warrant at a Market Street address, township police arrested a man on numerous drug charges.

Edgar Day, 66, whose listed address is at the Market Street Traveler’s Inn where the search occurred, was arrested Tuesday. He is in the Mahoning County jail on charges of trafficking in drugs, possession of drug paraphernalia and two counts of selling, purchasing, distributing or delivering dangerous drugs, according to sheriff’s office records.

The police department’s Narcotics Enforcement Unit arrived at Day’s residence about 12:30 p.m. Tuesday. Inside, officers purportedly found a digital scale, $29 in cash, rolling papers, suspected loose marijuana on a treadmill, Viagra pills, 11 unmarked pills, plastic bags, and a diabetes medication, according to a police report.

Day reportedly told police, “C’mon, it’s just for some weed. You know it helps people though, but I know it’s against the law.”

A woman at the scene, Claudette Moore, 46, of Youngstown, was arrested on a failure to appear warrant out of Campbell Municipal Court, according to the report.

Day is scheduled to appear in Mahoning County Area Court here today for arraignment.

Mahoning County court records indicate that Day was convicted last year on a misdemeanor possession of dangerous drugs charge.