Accused of smuggling drugs into facility

Accused of smuggling drugs into facility

YOUNGSTOWN

A Niles woman is accused of supplying the drugs that led to the overdose Tuesday of a woman at a Community Corrections Association facility.

Jessica Mason, 24, smuggled the drugs into the facility in a body cavity, according to Vindicator broadcast partner 21 WFMJ-TV.

The television station reported the woman who overdosed had to be revived with the opiate antidote Narcan. She was a state prisoner staying at the facility.

Mason was sentenced earlier this year to probation on prostitution charges and was ordered to spend part of that sentence in treatment in CCA. She is now in the Mahoning County jail awaiting a probation-violation hearing in common pleas court and may face additional charges, the television station reported.

Officials probe fire

HUBBARD

Firefighters are trying to figure out what caused an early morning house fire Thursday that sent three children to the hospital and killed a family’s pets.

Fire officials told 21 WFMJ-TV, The Vindicator’s broadcast partner, firefighters arrived at the home in the 400 block of Simler Street about 2:30 a.m. The house was fully engulfed. Five people were in the home when it caught fire, but they were all able to get out.

Hubbard Fire Chief Ron Stanish said three children were taken to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital for smoke inhalation and unknown injuries. The land contractor of the home, John Demetruk, said the children’s mother also went to the hospital. He also said the family’s pets – dogs, a cat and a parakeet – died. The Red Cross was notified, but Demtruck said the children’s father was staying with relatives.

Firetrucks from Hubbard, Liberty, Brookfield and the Youngstown Air Reserve Station in Vienna assisted.

Road to close

JOHNSTON

Sodom Hutchings Road at the railroad crossing just north of Bradley-Brownlee Road will be closed from 7 a.m. Monday through 3 p.m. Dec. 1 for culvert repair and paving, says the Trumbull County Engineer’s Office. The recommended detour route is east on Bradley-Brownlee Road, north on Warner Road and west on state Route 88.

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