Reported robbery
Reported robbery
YOUNGSTOWN
For the second time in a week, a man said he met someone in a Belmont Avenue parking lot to buy an iPhone and was robbed.
The victim drove to the police department about 7 p.m. Tuesday and told police the man he was to buy the phone from, whom he had met on the internet, got in his vehicle, kept his hands in his pockets and demanded his money.
The victim said he did not see a weapon, but the man had his hands in his pockets as if he had a gun, reports said. The suspect took his money and ran away.
On Friday, a man claimed he went to the same 1760 Belmont Ave. parking lot to buy an iPhone from a man he met on the internet and was robbed at gunpoint.
Weapon, drug charges
YOUNGSTOWN
Reports said police Tuesday found an unloaded .40-caliber Beretta semi-automatic handgun, 600 painkillers, two bags of marijuana and $528 cash in the backpack of a man they chased on foot.
Officers tried to pull over a car about 5:10 p.m. driven by Antwan Woodbridge, 26, of East Auburndale Avenue, for loud music.
Instead, Woodbridge drove to the 300 block of West Auburndale Avenue, where he jumped out of the car and ran away. As he was running, reports said, officers saw him trying to stuff a gun into a backpack before he was caught by police.
Also found in the car was an extended magazine for a handgun that had 45-caliber ammunition in it.
Woodbridge was arraigned in municipal court on charges of improper handling of a firearm in a motor vehicle, fleeing and eluding, carrying a concealed weapon and possession of drugs. His bond was set at $40,000.
Family 5-K Race
YOUNGSTOWN
The city’s first Youngstown Family 5-K Race will take place from 8 to 10 a.m. today at Wick Park on the North Side.
Race sponsor Carmella M. Williams, director of WE Program at the Youngstown Business Incubator, had a specific goal in mind: encourage more African-American families, especially black women, to walk on a day filled with food.
Earlier last week, Williams was looking for a Youngstown race to participate in. After looking, she concluded a race did not exist for the city on Thanksgiving Day. She saw that Girltrek was sponsoring Black Family 5-K races throughout the country and decided to host one.
GirlTrek is the largest public health nonprofit for African-American women and girls in the United States, with nearly 100,000 neighborhood walkers.
Report names Cafaro
WASHINGTON
President Donald Trump’s charitable foundation is dissolving, according to documents reviewed by NBC News.
Its reporting mentioned local developer J.J. Cafaro, who donated $50,000 to the Trump Foundation in 2016.
In 2002, Cafaro was convicted of bribing the late U.S. Rep. James Traficant, and in 2010 he pleaded guilty to making false statements after failing to disclose a $10,000 donation to his daughter’s congressional campaign.
Annual Homeless Walk
YOUNGSTOWN
The 10th annual Homeless Walk, an event to raise awareness of the homeless and to kick off the 2017-18 Cold Weather Emergency Shelter Program, begins at 9 a.m. Dec. 1 with a news conference at the Covelli Centre Community Room.
The walk route is from the center, 229 E. Front St., to Our Community Kitchen, 552 Mahoning Ave., and back.
For information, call Bob Altman or Colleen Kosta at Help Network of Northeast Ohio, formerly Help Hotline Crisis Center Inc., at 330-747-5111.