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Grand jury indicts Youngstown man on felony assault

YOUNGSTOWN — Robert G. Ribarin, 40, of North Brockway Avenue was indicted Thursday on felonious assault, falsification and obstructing official business in an April 29 West Side incident in which he is accused of trying to hit another man with a car Ribarin is accused of driving.

A Youngstown police report states that police were called to a home on Wesley Avenue on the West Side for a fight. The caller said a man in a blue Ford Escape tried to hit him with his vehicle.

The driver had also allegedly struck another vehicle in the parking lot of the Dollar Tree store on Mahoning Avenue before fleeing toward downtown. An officer located the Escape sideways on Rhoda Avenue near Mahoning Avenue.

As the officer inspected the vehicle, a man, later identified as Ribarin, approached the officer from the area of Wesley Avenue. Ribarin said he was a passenger in the vehicle that had been involved in an altercation on Wesley Avenue.

He said he had been with a woman on North Brockway Avenue when they observed her ex-boyfriend come to the home. At that point, knowing her children would be home alone on Wesley Avenue, they rushed over to her home to retrieve them, he told police.

On the way there, they pulled into the Dollar Tree parking lot, and Ribarin’s ex-boyfriend pulled into the lot and started to ram the woman’s vehicle. According to Ribarin, the woman then got out of the car and ran to the home on Wesley to retrieve her children.

Police spoke to a man at the Wesley Avenue home, and he said he and the woman had been arguing in the days prior, and she had left the home. He said he packed the woman’s things into his truck and went to the Brockway address to return them to her. When he got there, he saw she was there and sped back to Wesley because he had left his small children on Wesley alone.

When he got back to Wesley, he saw a vehicle in his neighbor’s driveway, and the vehicle drove through the yard toward him in his own driveway and tried to hit him, he told police. He said he thought the driver was the woman, but he realized it was not when she “appeared out of the second-story window.” He said he did not know who was driving the car. He said the vehicle went to the Dollar Tree and struck another vehicle in the parking lot.

The woman told police she and Ribarin went to the home on Wesley when she realized her kids were on Wesley alone and went into the house and did not see what was going on outside. She said Ribarin was driving her car because he had a valid driver’s license. She said she had been gone from the home on Wesley because of an argument between her and the other man.

Police said various factors, including tire tracks in the yard on Wesley, led to Ribarin being charged with felonious assault, a Youngstown police report states. Ribarin was taken to jail.

Others indicted are:

● CeeJay Latimer, 21, Franklin Avenue, burglary, two counts of domestic violence and one count of child endangering.

● Matthew J. Alpeza, 41, Mahoning County jail, vandalism, resisting arrest and obstructing official business.

● Sylvester Cox III, 60, East Avondale Avenue, cocaine possession with a specification of forfeiture of money in a drug case; cocaine possession with a specification of forfeiture of money in a drug case; and two counts of aggravated drug possession with a specification of forfeiture of money in a drug case.

● Christopher S. Robinson, 39, Pritchard Avenue, Lisbon, fentanyl related compound possession; operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol, a drug of abuse or a combination of them — OVI; and illegal use or possession of drug paraphernalia.

● Joseph E. Grove, 37, Mahoning County jail, two counts of receiving stolen property.

● Kenneth L. Williams, 30, Lakewood Avenue, being a felon in possession of a firearm, cocaine possession, heroin possession, improper handling of firearms in a motor vehicle and aggravated drug possession.

● Ngozi J. Johnson, 24, Mahoning County jail, tampering with evidence, being a felon in possession of a firearm and improperly handling of firearms in a motor vehicle.

● Pierre J. Munoz, 28, Halls Heights, failure to comply with the order of a police officer, being a felon in possession of a firearm, improperly handling of firearms in a motor vehicle, cocaine possession with a firearm specification and specification of forfeiture of money in a drug case; heroin possession with a firearm specification and specification of forfeiture of money in a drug case; aggravated drug possession with a firearm specification and specification of forfeiture of money in a drug case; and drug possession.

● John Oramas, 60, Mahoning County jail, breaking and entering and misdemeanor theft.

● Robert A.White Jr., 37, West Wilson Street, Struthers, fentanyl related compound possession and cocaine possession.

● Robert M. Allen, 24, Mahoning County jail, improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle, drug possession, falsification and obstructing official business.

● Terry L. Luckey Jr., 34, Mahoning County jail, being a felon in possession of a firearm, tampering with evidence, improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle and aggravated menacing.

● Abby M. Shack, 30, East Ohio Avenue, Sebring, aggravated drug possession and illegal use or possession of drug paraphernalia.

● Calvin S. Shelton Jr., 35, Southern Boulevard, Boardman, two counts of escape.

● Darnell S. Allen, 28, East Ohio Avenue, Sebring, failure to register.

● Harold J. Shuler, 35, West Boulevard, cocaine possession and fentanyl related compound possession.

● Angelica M. Bryant, 36, Market Street, cocaine possession and fentanyl related compound possession.

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