Man’s phone won’t stop ringing on way to jail

May 16, 2017 at 12:05a.m.

YOUNGSTOWN

Isaiah Ward must be a very popular person – police said his phone never stopped ringing Saturday while he was being taken to the Mahoning County jail on a first-degree felony charge of possession of cocaine.

Ward was arraigned Monday in municipal court before Judge Elizabeth Kobly on the cocaine charge as well as a charge of obstructing justice. He will have a preliminary hearing next week.

Ward, 25, was a passenger in a car pulled over about 5:55 p.m. Saturday at West Glenaven Avenue and Market Street for an improper turn.

While police were checking the driver’s information, Ward bolted out a side door and ran away. He was caught in a nearby yard after he slipped.

Reports said Ward had a large bag of suspected cocaine and two smaller bags of suspected cocaine, $1,148 in cash and two phones. He gave a police a false name before giving them his real identity, reports said.

Reports said when Ward was taken to the county jail, one of the phones never stopped ringing.

At the jail, Ward asked officers if he could keep the phone or if a family member could keep the phone because he did not want anyone to get the information on the device.

Police took the phone for evidence, reports said.

Early Sunday, police found 21 bags of suspected marijuana on a man while investigating a gunfire call on the South Side.

Officers were on a traffic stop about 12:40 a.m. Sunday on Hubbard Road when they heard gunfire nearby and went to investigate.

Reports said they spotted Michael Arroyo, no age listed, trying to get into a Buckeye Court apartment and acting nervous. Reports said Arroyo kept reaching into the pocket of his sweatshirt.

Officers said they were going to search him and Arroyo told them he had marijuana in his sweatshirt. Police found the suspected marijuana in the pocket.

Arroyo was taken into custody on a possession-of-marijuana charge and a warrant from the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office on a weapons charge.