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Boardman police respond to weekend crimes
BOARDMAN
Township police arrested a woman after a Marc’s employee said the woman bit her numerous times during a shoplifting incident.
According to a police report, officers were dispatched to the Tiffany Boulevard store about 10:30 a.m. Saturday for a report that a shoplifter was fighting with a loss-prevention worker.
The employee told police that she saw a woman, later identified as Sherry Gordon, 53, of Youngstown, conceal candy in her purse and then attempt to exit the store. When the employee said she was calling police, Gordon ran toward the door and attacked the employee, “biting her on the right breast, right bicep, and left forearm,” according to the report.
Gordon was arrested on a robbery charge and taken to the Mahoning County jail.
In a separate incident reported over the weekend, a man was arrested on a felonious-assault charge after police said he hit another man in the head with a beer bottle. Charged is Robbie Davis, 22, of Salem.
According to a police report, an officer witnessed a fight shortly after midnight Saturday at the Blue Wolf Tavern on Boardman-Canfield Road.
One of the men told police that he had been standing at the bar when Davis approached him and hit him in the forehead with a beer bottle, an account which video surveillance supported, according to the report.
Also arrested over the weekend were Brittany McCullough, 27, of Boardman, and Taurean McCullough, 20, of Youngstown, on one count each of aggravated burglary. The charges stem from a Nov. 1 incident reported by a Hillman Way resident.
A man told police that a woman and man showed up at his apartment and attacked him and his girlfriend. The man reported being punched and kicked in the face, and said the woman forced her way into the apartment and began fighting with his girlfriend.
In a separate incident, police responded Sunday night to a 911 call about a pizza-delivery driver being robbed.
According to a police report, the delivery driver told police that he was making a delivery in the 380 block of West Midlothian Boulevard “when he was robbed at gunpoint by two males.”
An order had been placed from the address where the robbery occurred, according to the report. The driver said he attempted to give the order to man standing outside the house when a second man appeared and pointed a gun at the driver, demanding he hand over “whatever you have.”
The driver handed over a wallet, phone and some cash, then ran back to his car and drove to a fast-food restaurant to call 911, according to the report.
In another incident reported over the weekend, a man told police his car was stolen after he arranged to meet a woman he had met on Backpage.com, a classifieds website.
According to a police report, an officer was dispatched to the Red Roof Inn on Tiffany South about 2:45 a.m. Saturday for a stolen vehicle report.
There, a 51-year-old Niles man reported that he had met a woman on Backpage and, after exchanging text messages, agreed that she would give him a massage in exchange for a “$150 donation” if he would meet her at the hotel.
The man said he met up with the woman about 12:30 a.m., then, after exiting the bathroom of the hotel room, saw the front door was open and his cellphone, car keys and $180 in cash were gone.
He then checked the parking lot and discovered that his car, a white Kia Niro, was gone, he told police.
Township police are investigating.