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Loud music from apartment lands 3 city residents in court
TweetAll three are to appear again in court in August.
YOUNGSTOWN — A combination of loud music, city police and a scuffle with officers resulted in trouble for three city residents.
Alecia Davis, 25, of Cedar Lane, is charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, obstructing official business and violation of the city’s loud music or noise ordinance.
Her sister, Amanda Davis, 21, also of Cedar, is charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, and Jason Farley, 34, of New York Avenue, is charged with disorderly conduct and obstructing official business.
The Davis sisters and Farley were arraigned Monday before Magistrate Anthony Sertick of Youngstown Municipal Court and released on their own recognizance. All three are due back in court Aug. 25.
According to police, officers were sent Sunday to Cedar on the East Side for a disturbance involving two people arguing. While on Cedar, officers heard music coming from the Davis apartment and asked that the music be turned down.
Officers noted that speakers had been placed in the window facing out toward the street.
Police say Farley became “extremely enraged” at the officers’ request to turn down the music. Reports say all three people refused to follow the officers’ request.
According to the report, they used an expletive and added, “We are at our house and we work; we will play our music.”
Police say the Davis sisters and Farley continually screamed obscenities at officers. Residents from other apartments, after the disturbance continued for several minutes, came outside to try to calm down the trio, according to the report.
Police say Amanda Davis was being restrained by a bystander but broke free and came at one officer “in an aggressive manner” with her fist clenched and hands raised. An officer grabbed her and attempted to arrest her, but she tried to run into the apartment.
Officers wrestled with Amanda Davis, spraying her with pepper spray after the struggle continued.
Police said Alecia Davis demanded officers get off her sister and grabbed in the general area of one officer’s pepper spray and firearm, unsnapping the holster holding the gun.
After being pushed away by police, Alecia Davis lunged at the officer a final time before being arrested, police said.
Farley, according to the reports, became increasingly agitated at the arrest of the sisters and was arrested a short time later after becoming aggressive with officers at the scene.
jgoodwin@vindy.com
Comments
ITS ALL GOOD !
I would suggest doing a rap to "I fought the law and the law won". Now they are under a ton of fines along with a record . The money from the rap could then pay the fines .
"Officers noted that speakers had been placed in the window facing out toward the street."
How about considering a broadcasting carreer ? It would be rewarding and less demanding .No court appearances would be needed.
All 3 deserve some time in the slammer.
OMG how can they think that way and not obey the officers requests?
Typical of those kind of people I guess these days.
Classy. Are these ladies single?
Why is it that when police are called to assist, it often brings out the worst in others?
Our police are paid to do a job serving to protect the community. They should not have to serve to protect themselves.
The Davis sisters should also be sued by the officers for assault and battery. No one, not a citizen, a reporter, or an officer should have to accept this sort of abuse.
And don't try to tell me I should have been there to understand. An Assault is an assault, just as battery is battery. The Davis sisters need to realize this situation is not friends and family. It is the police department. Possibly the fines will temper them. Most likely, they will not.
Vindyak is a genius! These officers should sue them. I hope this idea flourishes across the country.
Sotired, the one woman was charged for a "violation of the city’s loud music or noise ordinance."
If there's an ordinance prohibiting loud music, it's their job to enforce it.
That's like saying, "well, no one in the neighborhood complained that I was going 20 mph over the speed limit, so why should a police officer be able to give me a ticket and tell me I have to slow down?"
Okay, then explain why they felt it was necessary to have the speakers face outside of their apartment.
Oh, let me guess. They must have been carrying on as productive members of society and doing yardwork or the like to make their neighborhood look presentable, all while they were just listening to some "tunes" to help pass the time. Right.
I get what you're saying, tired, but they asked for this to happen. Regardless, they never should have acted the way they did.
Police officers get paid to get attacked by ferocious females. They are not allowed to sue them, but, they are allowed to use their tazers. " set 'em to stun"
sotired:
"Too many cops carry that swagger and tell people do what I say or I'll take you to jail. When they have no business saying it."
It doesn't take a genius to decide that the law can and will do you some serious harm if you don't obey their commands. The subculture does thier thing and then they complain about the results. ITS ALL GOOD !
We need to stop subsidizing the failures of the great capitalists and make some jobs. I dont care if its raking the damn forests.