4 arrested on gun charges arraigned Monday

By Joe Gorman | March 19, 2019 at 12:05a.m.

YOUNGSTOWN

Four men arrested on weapons charges over the weekend were arraigned Monday in municipal court.

Bond was set by Judge Renee DiSalvo at $12,000 for Jaimi Rozario, 36, of Ridge Avenue, arrested about 10:40 p.m. Sunday on East Dewey Avenue on the South Side after officers responded to a gunshot sensor call.

Reports said Rozario was in a car and got out when police arrived. He allowed officers to search him and they found a bag of suspected marijuana. Police then found a loaded pistol in the car. Rozario was booked into the Mahoning County jail and charged with improper handling of a firearm in a motor vehicle.

Judge DiSalvo set bond at $10,000 for Barry Wallace, 25, of Lowell Avenue, arrested about 2:50 a.m. Sunday on Interstate 680 after a car he was in was pulled over for speeding. Police smelled marijuana in the car and searched it, finding a loaded handgun, reports said. Wallace is charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm and improper handling of a firearm in a motor vehicle.

Bond was set at $10,500 for Harold Shuler, 29, of Glenellen Avenue, who was arrested about 1:50 a.m. Saturday at Market Street and East LaClede Avenue on the South Side after a car he was in was pulled over for running a red light. Police searched the car because they smelled marijuana and found a loaded handgun where Shuler was sitting. He also is charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm and improper handling of a firearm in a motor vehicle.

Kenneth Carter, 28, was arraigned on charges of receiving stolen property, improper handling of a firearm in a motor vehicle and being a felon in possession of a firearm as well as a parole violation.

Carter was in a car police tried to pull over about 12:50 a.m. Saturday on the lower West Side for running a stop sign. The car instead got on the freeway and did not stop until it pulled over on the interstate.

The gun was found in a map pocket in the back seat, reports said, where Carter had been sitting. Reports said it had been reported stolen from Youngstown in 2015.

His bond was set at $13,500.