YOUNGSTOWN — Lamar T. Bailey, 37, was arraigned on nine felony charges Wednesday afternoon in Youngstown Municipal Court after an officer tried to make a traffic stop on a stolen car, and Bailey allegedly fled on foot with a weapon.

The nine felony charges are being a felon in possession of a firearm, fleeing and eluding, tampering with evidence, receiving stolen property, improperly handing a firearm in a motor vehicle, carrying concealed weapons, obstructing official business and two counts of drug possession.

If convicted of the first three charges, all third-degree felonies, Bailey could get about nine years in prison. The other charges could add several more years behind bars.

The incident began with officers responding to Bear’s Den Road at Schenley Avenue on the West Side for a Flock camera “hit” on a stolen car, according to a Youngstown police report.

In August 2024, the city signed a two-year contract with Flock Safety to get 56 license-plate recognition cameras for the police department. The mounted cameras are in various places in the city. They take photos of every car that passes the camera and set off an alarm to the Youngstown Police Department if the vehicle’s license plate has been entered in connection with a wanted person, a stolen vehicle, an abduction or a lost senior citizen, according to city officials.

Officers responded at 3:12 p.m. Tuesday to the area where the Flock camera detection took place and observed the black Mazda with Pennsylvania license plates traveling north on Belle Vista Avenue. An officer activated his lights and siren to make a traffic stop.

But the driver, later identified as Bailey, accelerated to speeds of about 60 mph west on Irene Avenue. Then Bailey exited the vehicle and ran on foot. An officer saw Bailey bend down and throw a silver object next to a garbage can on Irene Avenue and continue running, the report states.

Bailey was then taken into custody on Chaney Circle. An officer returned to Irene Avenue and found a loaded handgun next to the garbage can, and Bailey was arrested.

While officers were doing an inventory of the vehicle prior to having it towed, they found suspected crack cocaine and suspected methamphetamine in the car. Officers learned that Bailey was convicted of fentanyl possession in 2020, as well as other felony convictions, making him ineligible to possess a firearm, the report states.

Bailey lived on Detroit Avenue in Youngstown the last time he had a felony conviction in Mahoning County. In that instance, Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge Maureen Sweeney sentenced Bailey to nine months in prison on convictions of being a felon in possession of a firearm, improper handling of firearms in a motor vehicle and misdemeanor aggravated menacing, according to court records.

Bailey returns to Youngstown Municipal Court for a preliminary hearing on his new felony charges at 9:15 a.m. Tuesday.