Man arrested for threatening security officer at WRTA in downtown Youngstown
According to reports from the Youngstown Police Department, a 46-year-old man from Ashtabula was arrested for making threats and having a firearm in downtown Youngstown.
Reports say a call came in Tuesday for YPD to come to 340 W Federal St. downtown, the WRTA bus station. The caller said there was a man with a gun, according to the report.
On the way to the WRTA bus station, a YPD officer reported being yelled at by an unknown male at the intersection of Vindicator Square and Front Street.
Due to the emergency at the bus station, the officer kept going past the man.
Reports say the officer spoke with a 26-year-old REMCO armed security officer at the bus station.
The armed security officer told police she was speaking to Jonathan Peek, 46, “about the trespassing list” when he became agitated.
The armed security officer told Peek he had to leave, and reports say this was when he began to “threaten her and pulled out a silver revolver.”
As he was leaving the bus station, Peek told the security officer, “I’m gonna come back and kill you,” according to reports.
Two YPD officers taking the report watched the altercation on WRTA security camera footage. After seeing video, the officer realized the man who’d yelled at him on the street earlier was Peek.
Peek was located at the intersection of Front and Phelps Streets, according to police reports from several officers who helped find him.
When police told him to put his hands up, he only put his left hand in the air while keeping his right hand in his coat pocket momentarily, according to reports.
He soon put both hands in the air and police officers placed him in handcuffs.
Reports say officers found a .357 Magnum firearm-revolver in the right hand coat pocket which had five empty shell casings inside.
Peek was taken to the Mahoning County Justice Center and faces one charge of aggravated menacing and another for having weapons under disability.
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