YOUNGSTOWN — A man, 47, was booked into the Mahoning County jail Thursday pending official charges in Youngstown Municipal Court following an altercation Wednesday night in which he is accused of hitting a man he knew in the face with a wine bottle and taking the other man’s backpack and bicycle.

The victim, who had a bleeding “gash” over one eye when he spoke to police, said he was “riding his bicycle to the (Shell Gas Station on Market Street) when he saw an old friend of his.”

He named the man who he said stood talking to the victim, then “grabbed a wine bottle he had on him and struck him in the face, knocking him over,” a police report states.

The victim said the other man then took the victim’s backpack and bicycle and rode south on Market Street in the 10:46 p.m. incident, categorized by police as an aggravated robbery.

The suspect did not have any new charges on file in Youngstown Municipal Court records late Thursday afternoon, but the man was in the county jail, according to jail records.

The victim said he did not understand why the suspect would assault and steal from him that way, “as they have known each other for a long period of time.”

He described his bicycle and said the suspect was wearing all black.

Ambulance personnel arrived to treat the victim, and an officer headed south on Market Street and saw a bicycle at the Best Way gas station on Market Street with no one near it. A backpack was hanging off of it and the brand of the bike matched the one that was stolen.

The officer waited a bit to watch for a suspect and saw a man inside look outside and then quickly look away, the report states.

The suspect came outside but continued past the bicycle, but an officer approached him and asked if the bicycle was his. He answered that it was not. He gave his real first name and was asked to put his arms behind his back and was told he was being detained. The man was wearing a book bag.

Another officer accompanied the suspect while an officer asked a store employee if the suspect arrived by bicycle, and the employee said yes and pointed to the only bicycle outside of the gas station.

Another officer arrived with the victim, who looked at the suspect and started yelling, “I can’t believe you would do this to me.”

He said the suspect was the person who took his bike and backpack and hit him. He also confirmed that the bicycle was his, but the backpack hanging from the bike was not his. He said the book bag the suspect had on his person was his.

The suspect was placed in the back of a police cruiser. A gym membership ID card in the bag the suspect was wearing had the victim’s name on it, the report states.

The suspect was taken to the county jail. The suspect has several charges on file in Youngstown Municipal Court from 2015 to 2023 for felony drug possession and misdemeanor criminal damaging.