Man robbed of valuables worth more than $6,000
YOUNGSTOWN — A man reported that another man got into his car near the Pit Stop Cafe on Logan Avenue about 4:10 a.m. Sunday and robbed him of items valued at more than $6,000.
The incident began with a 911 call about a man having an AK-47 firearm in the same parking lot near the Pit Stop Cafe. He and other men had fled north on Logan Avenue in a white Dodge Durango, a police report states.
While officers were checking the area, but did not locate the vehicle, a man told officers about being robbed. He said the man got into his car with the AK-47 pointed at the driver’s head and forced him to drive. The victim said he drove onto Tod Lane. He saw a white Durango pull behind them at a high rate of speed. The man with the gun forced the victim to give him a Gold Cuban Link worth $6,700, an iPhone, his wallet, bank card, access cards and two credit cards.
The description of the suspect matched what the people at the Pit Stop described. The victim said he was at “The Bop,” the name of the afterhours club just south of the Pit Stop Cafe. He said he was at the door of “The Bop” when the man with the gun and other men tried to enter the building. The victim said he started laughing, and the men took offense and “exchanged words with him.”
Later, the man entered his car. The police report states that while an officer was typing his report on the robbery, he learned that a crash took place on McGuffey Road on the East Side and it involved a white Durango matching the “exact description” of the one involved in the earlier incidents, the report states.
After fleeing the scene, a man contacted police and stated that he had been in an accident in the white Durango and “the only reason he fled was because his license is suspended.”
The report does not indicate that anyone was arrested in the incident.



