Man arraigned for threatening kids with machete

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

A Mahoning Avenue man is in the Mahoning County jail on $5,000 bond after he was arraigned on charges of aggravated menacing. He is accused of threatening to kill a woman and three of her children with a machete Saturday morning.

Reports said police were called about 12:50 a.m. to the home of Joseph Creekmore, 36, for a suicidal male, and when they arrived, they found Creekmore bleeding from two cuts to his arm.

Reports said the woman told police that Creekmore was drinking and threatened to kill himself with the machete, and when she stood up to protect herself, he held the blade to her throat and threatened to kill her and her children.

Creekmore also was barred from having any contact with the woman during his arraignment in municipal court by Judge Elizabeth Kobly.