Vandalism, theft reported at Double Tree hotel in Youngstown
A citizen from Canada was taken into police custody after he was accused of vandalizing an elevator in the lobby of the Double Tree Hotel on Central Square in downtown Youngstown.
According to a Youngstown police report, the incident occurred shortly after midnight on April 11. Officers responding to the call noticed pieces of wood strewn about the lobby floor as they entered the room. Employees told officers that a male hotel guest was intoxicated, belligerent and had gouged and scratched the walls of an elevator. Hotel staff wanted the guest removed from the property as he was arguing with staff and showing visible signs of intoxication and emanated an odor of alcoholic beverage.
As he was being detained the man told officers he was Canadian and that officers needed to take him to the airport. Instead, the officers took him to the Mahoning County Sheriff’s office, the report stated, where the man was advised about his rights to contact the Canadian consulate. Authorities confirmed the man’s status as a citizen of Canada, but he was officially detained on a charge of vandalism.
Officers noted the deep gouges and scratches and scuffed finished to the interior of the central elevator and a seal strip was pulled away from the edge of the door with a wood and metal “wet floor” sign obliterated and strewn all about the hotel lobby and the elevator interior. Due to the potential for operational damage, the report stated the elevator was taken out of service until it could be inspected.
In a separate police report, a member of the department’s auxiliary police spoke to a Double Tree hotel guest who left her belongings in a room on March 31 and reported that some of her property had not been returned.
The female guest told the officer she left the Double Tree about 12:30 p.m. on March 31, leaving three items in a closet in room 1102: a blue jean coat valued at $1,000, a hoodie valued at $150 and a two-piece jogging suit valued at $100.
The hoodie and the jogger were returned to the guest after she contacted hotel staff, the report stated, but the jean coat was not returned. The guest wants hotel management to review surveillance video to investigate what happened to her jean jacket, the report stated.