Not-guilty plea

Not-guilty plea

STRUTHERS

Raymond Beatty, 28, a Poland Township road department employee who township police said stole road grindings from the township, pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor theft charge Friday in Struthers Municipal Court.

His next court date has not been set. Judge James R. Lanzo has recused himself from the case due to the defendant’s father being the police chief in Poland Village, according to the court.

Township trustees had a pre-disciplinary meeting on the matter this week, and a special meeting to discuss a township road employee is scheduled for Tuesday.

Shooting probe

YOUNGSTOWN

Detectives are investigating after a 19-year-old Campbell man was shot in the arm Thursday evening. Reports said the victim drove himself to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital and said he was somewhere on Wilson Avenue when another car cut him off and someone in the car fired several shots at him before he was hit in the arm.

Police were called to the hospital about 8:50 p.m. to speak to the victim, reports said.

Arson arrest

YOUNGSTOWN

Police arrested Leray Jackson, 25, about 12:10 p.m. Thursday on an arson warrant. Jackson was taken into custody at her South Truesdale Avenue address. She is in the Mahoning County jail.

Arson investigator Capt. Kurt Wright of the fire department said Jackson is accused of setting her mother’s Clinton Street home on fire in April during an argument. The East Side house was heavily damaged, Wright said.

Boardman break-in

BOARDMAN

Township police are investigating a break-in in which nearly 100 boxes of cigarettes were stolen from a Dollar General on East Midlothian Boulevard, according to a police report.

According to the report, a man delivering newspapers about 5 a.m. Thursday found the store’s front door had been smashed out. Police reported finding a glass cigarette case inside the store had been broken.

Surveillance video shows someone breaking the front door about 1 a.m. and entering the store, police said.

It was determined 96 boxes of cigarettes were missing, at a value of $652.80, according to the report.

Baby Buggy Walk

YOUNGSTOWN

Arlington Heights Recreation Center, 801 Otis St., will host the Baby Buggy Walk from noon to 3 p.m. today. This is a free family event that includes a 1.5-mile walk (a baby stroller is not necessary to participate), pregnancy and infant-loss remembrance, a stroller-decorating contest, baby-crawl contest, information tables, giveaways and prizes, games, food and a diaper dash.

Bird-feeder cleaning

BOARDMAN

The Audobon Society of Mahoning Valley is having a bird-feeder cleaning from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today at Wild Birds Unlimited Nature Shop, 90 Boardman-Canfield Road (one block west of Southern Park Mall). Donation is $4 per feeder. They will be cleaned and sanitized while people wait.

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