CANFIELD — A 17-year-old male was taken to the Mahoning County Juvenile Justice Center Sunday night after Mahoning County Sheriff’s deputies and Canfield Fair police officers investigated an allegation of the male having a weapon at the Canfield Fair and arrested him.

The male had his initial appearance Tuesday in Mahoning County Juvenile Court on one low-level-felony charge of carrying a concealed weapon and one of tampering with evidence, two misdemeanor counts of aggravated menacing and one misdemeanor count of obstructing official business, according to court officials. He is being held in detention in the Martin P. Joyce Juvenile Justice Center pending a pretrial in seven to 10 days.

The episode began at 8 p.m., when a male advised officers at the Fair Police Department that a male he knows threatened he and a female with a gun near the grandstands, according to a Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office report.

The male victim told Canfield Fair police he did not immediately recognize the suspect because he was wearing a ski mask. But as the victim approached, he recognized the male, who then “flashed a gun tucked on his side,” the report states. The suspect made a remark about the victim “talking about his dead cousin” and told the victim to “watch his back,” according to the report.

The victim said he was a friend of his a few years ago but they no longer associate. Since then, the suspect has threatened to shoot the male victim and his family, he said. The suspect was wearing a black ski mask and gray hooded sweatshirt.

At about 8:45 p.m., a fair director notified the fair police chief that he saw a male matching the description near a tent just south of the grandstands, but the suspect heard the radio traffic and started to run north toward the grandstands, the report states.

Deputies nearby started to chase the suspect, who “was observed to be reaching inside his waistband and refusing to stop,” despite orders, the report states. Deputy Joe Hamilton apprehended the suspect.

The report states that after a fairgrounds employee pointed out the suspect, Hamilton, who was with two other deputies, commanded the suspect to stop, but the suspect did not stop and reached into his pants “as if attempting to access the firearm.” Hamilton then drew his stun gun and continued to command the suspect to stop and get on the ground, which he eventually did, the report states. The juvenile was wearing a black Nike ski mask.

Hamilton then handcuffed the suspect, who did not have a gun on his person. The juvenile was taken to the Fair Police Department. Afterward, deputies searched for a gun on the route through which the juvenile ran. Sgt. Jeff Saluga located the firearm under a storage truck directly behind the concession stands where the juvenile was apprehended, the report states.

The loaded firearm was “just a few feet from where the suspect was taken into custody,” the report states.