Suspect arrested

Suspect arrested

YOUNGSTOWN

U.S. Marshals apprehended a man Friday at the ESA Park Apartments on the East Side who is accused of raping a child multiple times over several years.

A Mahoning County grand jury Thursday indicted Jeremiah Rodriguez, 23, of Himrod Avenue, on three counts of rape and one count each of gross sexual imposition and disseminating matter harmful or obscene to a juvenile.

The alleged offenses took place between 2015 and 2017 while the child was between 5 and 7 years old.

Rodriguez is in the Mahoning County jail awaiting arraignment.

Hubbard police looking for man, 20

HUBBARD

Hubbard police are looking for an endangered adult who has been missing since early Wednesday.

Family members reported Dakota Kettering, 20, as missing and that he was off his medication, as first reported by The Vindicator’s broadcast partner 21 WFMJ-TV.

Kettering’s special health needs have caused police to consider him “endangered,” police added. He was last seen in a light-gray T-shirt, gray sports pants and black flip-flops. Kettering is 5 feet 10 inches tall with reddish- blond hair and blue eyes. He may have a red and black checkered blanket with him.

Anyone with information is asked to call Hubbard police at 330-534-8153 or the Trumbull County Dispatch Center at 330-675-2730.

Robbery reported

YOUNGSTOWN

Reports said a gunman got away with $400 cash from a Belmont Avenue store Thursday evening.

Reports said a gunman dressed in black and wearing a pink bandanna over his face entered the store about 7:15 p.m, pointed a gun at a 1370 Belmont Ave. store clerk, got the money and ran out of the store.

It is the third armed robbery of a business in the neighborhood within a week, police said.

Widening project

LEETONIA

The village will have construction work done on the Home Street Widening Project, weather permitting, beginning Tuesday through Oct. 16. Home Street will be closed during the construction phase from Cherry Fork Avenue to Columbia Street (state Route 344).

Motorists should use caution traveling in this area due to construction work and workers’ safety.

Holocaust event

YOUNGSTOWN

Jesse McClain, Holocaust education specialist with the Youngstown Area Jewish Federation, will discuss the lives of local Holocaust survivors Henry Kinast and Bill Veigh at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the main branch of the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County on Wick Avenue.

Kinast, who grew up in Lodz, Poland, and spent time in the Buchenwald concentration camp before moving to Youngstown in 1955, will be in attendance.

Open house

CANFIELD

The Canfield Joint Fire District is having an open house for its third fire station, 7075 Herbert Road, at 10 a.m. today.

Officials from the city, township and fire district will commemorate the opening by connecting three sections of hose. Tours of the station and fire prevention items will be available during the open house.

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