Youngstown news, Warren store robbed

Published: Thu, August 17, 2017 @ 12:00 a.m.

Warren store robbed

WARREN

Two armed men ordered two clerks at the Red & White store, 1104 W. Market St., to get on the ground Tuesday as they forced a third worker into the back room of the store in a 9:20 p.m. robbery.

The robbers were both wearing pantyhouse-type masks, black pants and black T-shirts. One told the two employees on the floor that they knew where they lived and would kill them if they called police.

Police later used a canine to track the suspects and found a mask believed to have been used by the robbers behind a house on Haymaker Avenue Northwest.

The employee forced into the back room said one of the robbers ordered her to open the safe, and they took an undisclosed amount of money from the safe and from a register and fled.

Child-endangering case

WARREN

Labrittany L. Campbell, 23, of Roberts Avenue Northwest and Woodview Avenue, pleaded not guilty Wednesday in municipal court to two counts of child endangering after police found her two children, age 3 and 2, in a car Tuesday afternoon at the Stonegate Apartments.

Witnesses said the children had been in the car for about an hour. The older child had started the car during that time, a witness said.

Judge Terry Ivanchak set bond at $2,500. He ordered her to have no unsupervised contact with children.

When police went looking for Campbell, they found her walking through the apartment complex about 12:10 p.m.

When an officer asked Campbell why the children were left alone in the car, she said she was sleeping in the apartment.

A Children Services worker placed the children with their grandmother.

Woman pleads guilty

GIRARD

A Warren woman who crashed an SUV into a Motel 6 on Belmont Avenue in Liberty has pleaded guilty to child endangerment.

The Vindicator’s broadcast partner, 21-WFMJ TV, reported that Kedline Joseph, 22, pleaded guilty Wednesday and was placed on a year’s probation in Girard Municipal Court.

Police said Joseph was driving and had two children with her when the vehicle hit a column outside the motel last week.

The children were returned to their mother, who also owns the SUV. The woman had asked Joseph to watch her children for the day.

Shot fired at SUV

YOUNGSTOWN

Police found a bullet hole about 10:10 p.m. Tuesday in an SUV after responding to a gunshot-sensor activation in the first block of St. Louis Avenue on the South Side.

Officers responding found the SUV in a parking lot behind a Market Street store. Reports said the driver told police he had parked there earlier and two men got out of a car that pulled up across the street. When the man tried to drive away, one of the other men pulled a gun and fired one round.

Officers found a .45-caliber shell casing where the driver had originally parked, reports said. He was not injured.

Ex-bus driver pleads

CANFIELD

Former Canfield schools bus driver Launa Lynn pleaded no contest to the charge of disorderly conduct in Mahoning County Court on Tuesday evening. She was accused of stealing gasoline from the school bus garage.

The original charge was reduced to disorderly conduct from misdemeanor theft, and Lynn paid restitution of $300 to Canfield schools.

Lynn resigned from her bus driver position May 19.

Richard Hammond, director for transportation for Canfield schools, believed he caught Lynn on surveillance footage at the time of the incident. Police found Lynn at the garage gas pump the night of May 2.

Lynn told police she had fueled her vehicle with school gas on five occasions.

YMHA board to meet

YOUNGSTOWN

Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority board meets at noon today at Amedia Plaza, 131 W. Boardman St. downtown. Among the agenda items the board will consider is a proposal to award a contract for elevator maintenance.

Stavich Bike Trail closed

STRUTHERS

The city has closed the Stavich Bike Trail off state Route 289 until further notice to make repairs.