HOWLAND — A Howland man is in Trumbull County jail this vacation weekend awaiting arraignment in Warren Municipal Courtroom on a pair of aggravated menacing fees after a Thanksgiving Day confrontation with neighbors.
Josh Oakes, 31, of Overland Avenue NE, will seem by way of video hookup Monday morning between the Trumbull County jail and the courtroom of Municipal Courtroom Decide Terry Ivanchak to reply the fees.
A report exhibits Oakes was booked into the ability about 2:30 p.m. Thursday after Howland police had been known as to a Ewalt Avenue NE handle to deal with a dispute between neighbors.
A caller to Trumbull County 911 reported an Overland Avenue neighbor pulled out a firearm after an argument. The Overland Avenue man later known as dispatchers to say he didn’t have a gun, however that he pulled his non-public half out, the report states.
When officers arrived, they spoke to a pair of brothers who said they had been of their fenced-in yard on Ewalt Avenue when the person — recognized as Oakes — started yelling in regards to the animals, particularly a loud rooster, based on the report.
When the person started climbing on the fence, the incident escalated with Oakes threatening to get “his 9,” the report states.
As Oakes went to his purple SUV parked within the driveway of the Overland Avenue house, the brothers instructed officers that Oakes was noticed loading a black firearm. That’s when the neighbors went to their entrance yard to ask any individual to name police, the report states.
In his interview, the report states, Oakes admitted to cops to arguing along with his neighbors and mentioned he did make a movement of pulling a gun from his waistband, nevertheless it was truly a battery charger from contained in the door of his SUV.
Officers additionally talked to Oakes grandmother, who said she didn’t permit any firearms in her house as a consequence of her grandson’s psychological well being points, the report states.
The report said that on Oct. 10, Oakes was admitted to a hospital and a 9 mm pistol was seized by police after Oakes threatened to kill himself.
On Thursday, officers obtained permission to look Oakes SUV and located a receipt for a gun that was bought Oct. 14, 4 days after the opposite pistol was seized.
Oakes admitted to purchasing one other gun, which he instructed officers was upstairs rolled up in a winter hat. Officers obtained permission from the grandmother to look the upstairs room, and so they discovered a loaded 9 mm Sig Sauer pistol, the report states.
Due to the circumstances, the report states Oakes was arrested and charged with the first-degree misdemeanors that carry a most penalty of 180 days in jail.
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