NILES — A McDonald man spooked by a police car on patrol was arrested Friday night after he ran into a woman’s backyard.

David Boggs, 39, of Annabelle Street, was sentenced Tuesday in Niles Municipal Court to 180 days in jail and fined $500 on a charge of possesion of drug instruments. A charge of tresspassing was dismissed. Boggs was give credit for five days previously served in jail.

He had been wanted for more than a year.

A Niles police officer on patrol 10 p.m. Friday reported spotting a man who looked like he was trying to hide his face, which made the officer suspicious. The man ran into a bakery. When he came out and saw the police cruiser again, he ran south on Cedar Avenue and into a residential backyard, a Niles police report states.

A woman flagged down the officer to check her property for the man, whom she said she did not know and who did not have permission to be on her property.

The officer found the same man who looked like he was trying to hide his face lying on his stomach behind the garage. The man was placed in handcuffs. He was identified as Boggs and booked into the Trumbull County jail.

Police checked the backyard for any belongings the man may have left behind and found hypodermic needles, a plastic bag with a crystal substance and a powder substance. The man was identified as Boggs.

Trumbull County Common Pleas Court issued a warrant for Boggs after he failed to appear May 12, 2021, for a pretrial hearing related to a felony drug possesion charge. He still has to answer that charge.