Staff report

BOARDMAN — A repeat OVI offender was arrested on the same charge after crashing his car into a ditch this weekend.

Tyran P. Madison, 26, of Schenley Avenue, Youngstown, was arrested about 6:30 a.m. Sunday on Hopkins Road, about 500 feet away from his apartment.

Madison is due in Mahoning County Boardman Court today, where he faces charges of OVI and refusing a sobriety field test on a second OVI charge, both first-degree misdemeanors, as well as driving without a valid license and failure to control, both misdemeanors. He also is charged with obstruction and resisting arrest.

In Ohio, failure to submit to a sobriety test after an OVI conviction results in immediate license suspension, and test refusal can lead to more severe penalties if convicted on the OVI charge.

The Boardman police report states that officers responded to a call about a car that hit a road sign and landed in the ditch near the bottom of Schenley Avenue.

Police dispatch immediately notified the officers that Madison had an active arrest warrant from Lordstown police for OVI. The report states that as police were placing Madison in handcuffs, they noticed the scent of alcohol coming from him and saw that his eyes were glassy and bloodshot. Madison admitted to having consumed alcohol overnight, the police report states.

When the officer took Madison’s phone from the pocket of his hooded sweatshirt, Madison became belligerent and refused to allow police to place him in the back of the police cruiser, locking his legs out straight. The report states that one officer had to pull him from behind from the door on the other side while the other physically placed him into the rear seat and shut the door.

The report states that when the officer read Madison his Miranda rights and tried to give him instructions about the OVI evaluation, Madison repeatedly told him to “shut the (expletive) up.”

When the tow truck arrived and officers realized Madison still had the car key, he exploited the opportunity when they opened the door and pushed himself out of the car, toppling onto one of the officers. That officer tried to use a pressure-point submission tactic, which did not work, and they had to place leg shackles on Madison and then fight to secure him once more in the back of the car, the report states.

Madison is no stranger to local police, mainly for disregarding the rules of the road and being less than compliant with law enforcement when he’s caught.

In Boardman in 2023, he was charged with OVI, and later pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of failure to control and to a charge of driving under suspension.

Youngstown Municipal Court records show that in 2018, Madison was found guilty of resisting arrest, but a charge of obstruction was dismissed. In 2019, he was convicted of driving under suspension, but a charge of failure to obey traffic signals was dismissed. In 2020, a charge of improper handling of a firearm, a fourth-degree felony, was bound over to Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, and he was found guilty. In 2021, he was found guilty of fleeing and eluding, obstruction and driving without a license. In 2022, he pleaded guilty to distracted driving and failure to use child safety restraints, while charges of driving under suspension, resisting and driving outside marked lanes were dismissed.

The 2020 felony charge came when Madison was arrested along with a relative, Deandre Madison – then 24 — after Deandre Madison fired a shot into the ground during a fight outside of a daycare center.