YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown police officers and a highway patrol trooper arrested two juveniles Wednesday night at Glenwood and Indianola avenues in a stolen car that was involved hours earlier in an armed robbery/car -jacking in Pennsylvania. One report stated that the carjacking took place in Sharon, Pa.

A Youngstown officer and trooper were working on an Impact Initiative shift when they were alerted to the vehicle being at that location and went there, finding the vehicle backed into a space in the back of a building.

Impact Initiative is the name of the special patrols being carried out in Youngstown with the help of the Ohio State Highway Patrol and other law enforcement agencies to reduce guns and violence during part of the year.

The officers called for other officers to respond to the location. After seeing that no one was in the car, they went to the front of the building, a business, and spoke to an employee, who said a tall boy in a green hooded sweatshirt had exited the vehicle and was now in the store.

The employee said he or she could see a gun in the boy’s sweatshirt pocket. He also was in the store with what the person believed was a child.

Officers cleared out the “remaining customers” from the store and an employee and then located the tall male in a green hooded sweatshirt and a girl.

Both were handcuffed while officers continued to investigate. The trooper found a loaded bullet magazine in the girl’s pants pocket.

An officer found a loaded gun in the genitals area of the boy’s clothing and retrieved it.

As that was happening, the boy broke out of his handcuffs and tried to flee on foot, but he did not get away, the report states. He did, however, strike an officer in the face while fleeing, the report states.

While officers were securing him, one officer “tactically stunned (the boy) with a closed fist followed up by” another officer using his stun gun on the boy, the report states.

The fist strike was done because of the officer’s knowledge of the boy being a suspect in an armed robbery, finding a loaded gun on his person, taking “extreme measures to escape and still not giving up his hands,” the report states. The boy was then placed back in handcuffs with no further incident.

The report states that officers contacted the Mercer Police Department, who came to take possession of the vehicle. The girl had an extradition warrant out of Pennsylvania for a probation violation. She also had a key to the stolen vehicle and a mask in her purse.

She was taken to the Mahoning County Juvenile Justice Center on her warrant and charges of receiving stolen property.

The boy was taken to the hospital for treatment of minor injuries and then to the Mahoning County Juvenile Justice Center on charges of receiving stolen property, carrying concealed weapons, escape, resisting arrest, obstruction and assault on a police officer.

The girl volunteered that the “bonnet she was wearing belonged to the owner of the car.” The ages of the two juveniles was not given in the report.

An attempt to learn more about the carjacking by calling the Mercer County 911 Center Thursday morning was not successful.