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Boardman police arrest two in carjackings

17- and 18-year-olds held at Mahoning County Juvenile Justice Center

BOARDMAN — Police have arrested two suspects in a carjacking case from earlier this month after they fled from another carjacking Aug. 12.

A police report states that Isiaah Maquis Christian, 17, of Cambridge Avenue, and Nicholas Wilson, 18, of East Florida Avenue, in Youngstown, both are in detention at the Mahoning County Juvenile Justice Center. Christian is charged with aggravated robbery, a first-degree felony.

Wilson is charged with complicity, a first-degree felony, possession of criminal tools, a fifth-degree felony, and receiving stolen property, a fourth-degree felony.

Christian is named as a suspect in a supplement to the Boardman police report about the early Aug. 8 carjacking at the Dunkin Donuts on Market Street. It states that he was arrested in connection with another incident. The report describes another violent car theft on Midlothian Boulevard on Aug. 12.

On that day, about 12:30 p.m., a woman drove her boyfriend’s car to Boost Mobile on Midlothian Boulevard to pay her phone bill. While in the store, employees told her the car was being stolen.

She ran out to confront the thieves as the car was pulling out of the parking space, and when she reached into the driver’s side window, one of the three people in the car punched her in the face, and another said to shoot her. She hung on to the car until she fell down in the parking lot and sustained serious cuts and scrapes to her face.

The report states that she was able to track the car using a phone app, and it was eventually found in a Walmart parking lot. It also states that Wilson was identified as a suspect and found and arrested inside Walmart. Wilson has a lengthy criminal record and was on probation from JJC.

The report states that a witness told police that two men and a woman got out of the car and got into a Town and Country minivan. That minivan was found one row over and found to be empty. But its plates came back to a woman police identified as Wilson’s grandmother, Andrea Moss. During the arrest, she was also charged with obstruction.

While the report does not specify how Christian was identified or charged, it does indicate that a juvenile black male was in the store with Moss and Wilson during the arrest. Witnesses and surveillance video showed that juvenile, along with Wilson and a girl, arriving at Walmart and approaching the minivan before entering the store. The juvenile female was not found during Wilson’s arrest, although she was seen on surveillance cameras entering and leaving the store.

A juvenile female was arrested and charged with obstruction and a curfew violation after the Aug. 8 carjacking. The Aug. 12 incident report does not state if police believe she is the same female they charged days earlier.

That incident occurred around 2:45 a.m. when two Walmart employees were sitting in the parking lot eating fast food and three black males wearing hoodies and black ski masks approached them and banged on the window with a gun.

The report states the robbers demanded the men’s wallets, then ordered them out of the car. They stated that the robbers screamed at them to give up their phones and the keys to the car. They fled north toward Youngstown and the men walked back to Walmart to get the other man’s car and drove to the Boardman police station to report the incident.

A Youngstown police report states that an officer searched the area for the car and at about 5 a.m. found it parked in the driveway of 518 E. Dewey Ave. with several people still seated in the car.

The Youngstown report states the officer pulled into the driveway behind the car and ordered them out at gunpoint. The driver backed the car up, then went forward onto the road, and headed west on Dewey.

The officer reported he pursued them, and the chase reached 75 mph before they came to a stop at West Dewey Avenue and Hillman Street, and the four occupants got out and fled. The juvenile female was caught and charged and then released to her mother.

Police processed the car for prints and the report states that they found several pieces of evidence inside.

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