Bullet holes in home

Bullet holes in home

YOUNGSTOWN

Reports said police responding to a gunfire call about 2:15 a.m. Tuesday in the 2900 block of Rush Boulevard found 12 bullet holes in a South Side home.

Officers were responding to a gunfire sensor call that recorded 25 rounds being fired from a semi-automatic weapon. Several windows on the home were shattered, and police found six bullets inside the house and three .40-caliber shell casings outside.

Reports said witnesses at the home were not cooperative and appeared to be in a hurry to leave. No one was injured.

This is at least the third time in the last three weeks officers working midnight turn have responded to calls of multiple shots fired on the South Side. No one has been hurt in any of those incidents.

Men questioned

YOUNGSTOWN

Police questioned two men after being called to a shooting Tuesday at Clay and Clinton streets on the East Side. No victim was found, but a car that was supposed to have been involved did have a bullet hole in it. Officers searched the car and questioned the two men who were in it. The car was found in a parking lot at Oak and Livingston streets.

Stabbing investigated

YOUNGSTOWN

Officers helped treat a man’s stab wounds late Monday after being called for a fight at a South Side home in the 300 block of Mistletoe Avenue.

Reports said when officers arrived about 10:25 p.m., a woman there told them she was fighting with a 23-year-old man, and she wanted him to leave. Reports said the man was bleeding and told police he may have been stabbed.

Officers removed the man’s jacket and found what was described as a large wound to his back shoulder and a smaller cut on his back. Officers Matthew Simon and Luis Villaplana had the man lay down and applied pressure to the wounds with towels the woman gave them until an ambulance arrived.

Reports said the victim told police he was fighting with another man over the woman when he was stabbed, because the victim got the woman pregnant.

Not-guilty plea entered

WARREN

Emanuel G. Cofield Sr., 41, of Linda Drive Northwest pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Warren Municipal Court on three felony and four misdemeanor drug charges after police searched his house at 9:15 p.m. Monday and found suspected fentanyl, heroin and Suboxone, hypodermic syringes, a drug scale and a grinder.

Cofield is charged with three counts of drug possession and single misdemeanor charges of drug possession, drug-abuse-instrument possession, drug-paraphernalia possession and drug abuse. Bond was set at $10,000.

Man enters plea

YOUNGSTOWN

A man charged with aggravated murder earlier this year entered a plea Tuesday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court to an unrelated drug case.

Terrell Martin, 37, of Tod Lane, pleaded guilty before Judge Maureen Sweeney to a misdemeanor count of attempted complicity to trafficking in marijuana. Under a plea agreement between the attorneys, Martin was sentenced to time served.

Martin has been in the Mahoning County jail since he was arrested in March for the Feb. 20 shooting death of Zachary Howell, 40, whose body was found in a burning SUV behind a vacant house on the far East Side.

Martin also faces charges of aggravated robbery, aggravated burglary, kidnapping and felonious assault in an unrelated case.

Niles to receive grant

NILES

The city will receive a $1 million grant to partner with the cities of Girard and Hubbard to rehabilitate 14 owner-occupied homes and repair 27 owner-occupied homes, the Ohio Development Services Agency announced Tuesday.

The award was among $24 million the agency announced it will disburse in 30 communities to “rehabilitate, repair, and construct affordable housing for low-income Ohioans as well as provide home ownership and rental assistance,” according to a news release.

The grants come from the Community Housing Impact and Preservation Program, funded by the Ohio Housing Trust Fund, federal Community Development Block Grant and HOME programs.

Break-ins probed

POLAND

Police are investigating a string of reported house break-ins.

Township police received reports from two North Lima Road residents last week, both reported on a weekday morning.

According to a police report, several thousand dollars’ worth of jewelry were stolen.

Township police said this week they do not have any leads on suspects, but noted the break-ins were similar in that the houses were broken into from the back and jewelry was the target.