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YPD finds real guns and BB gun
By Joe Gorman
YOUNGSTOWN
Police found two guns and drugs while serving a search warrant, responded to a robbery call and chased a man on foot downtown who reports said threw away a BB gun.
Police serving a search warrant Thursday suspected drug activity at a Kensington Avenue home found a .45-caliber handgun inside, as well as in a car, several rounds of ammunition and $956 cash.
Officers from the vice squad and Community Police Unit arrested Trina Autry, 24, who lists the North Side home as her address, after serving the warrant about 6 p.m.
Reports said Autry was in a car that was leaving the home when officers arrived. They pulled the car over a short distance away. She immediately told police she has a concealed-carry permit, and officers found a .45-caiber Glock semi-automatic handgun in her car.
The gun found in the house was also a Glock, reports said. Suspected crack cocaine and marijuana were also found inside the house, reports said.
Autry was booked into the Mahoning County jail on drug charges and arraigned Friday in municipal court on charges of possession of drugs and possession of marijuana. Her bond was set at 10 percent of $3,000. She has no prior criminal record.
Officers also served a warrant about 5 p.m. Thursday at a downstairs apartment in the 3000 block of Glenwood Avenue on the South Side and found two pills, a bag of suspected marijuana and a scale. Arrested there on drug charges was Gollin Freeman, who lists the home as his address. His bond was set at $5,000 after his arraignment hearing.
About 6:55 p.m. Thursday, a 25-year-old Boardman man told police he was robbed of $120 by a man in a Belmont Avenue parking lot he had arranged to meet to sell a cellphone.
Reports said the man flagged down an officer on patrol and told the officer he arranged to meet the man over the internet. When he arrived, the man pulled a gun, took his money and ran away. Police searched the area for the suspect but could not find him.
And reports said police chased a man downtown late Thursday on foot who also tossed away a BB gun before he was caught.
Officers were sent downtown to look for a shooting suspect and found a man who matched the suspect’s description, Vincent Pickett, 31, of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, crouching between cars at Commerce and Hazel streets, reports said.
When an officer asked to speak to Pickett, reports said he turned his body away as if he was trying to hide something before running.
Reports said Pickett was holding his waist the entire time until he threw away what looked like a silver handgun on Phelps Street. Police ordered him to the ground, reports said. He was also wearing a black mask with a pair of holes cut into it.
The gun was found to be a BB gun, reports said. Pickett faces charges of possessing criminal tools, resisting arrest and obstructing official business.