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DETAILS, A2 FOR DAILY & BREAKING NEWS LOCALLY OWNED SINCE 1869 TUESDAY, JULY 18, 2017 U 75¢ Lordstown police: Pot smuggling via Fusion has occurred before Law enforcement Marijuana bales were found on popular Ford car at rail yard in 2015 seized marijuana in the trunks of Ford By ED RUNYAN ment on Monday Detective Chris Bordonaro of Fusions at dealerships [email protected] provided the de- the Lordstown police said the rail in Portage, Stark LORDSTOWN tails after Jeff Orr, yard notifi ed Lordstown offi cers and Columbiana Last week was not the fi rst time former Trumbull after finding 50 to 100 pounds counties, as well as that marijuana made its way from Ashtabula Group of marijuana attached to the one in Pennsylvania. VINDICATOR The rail car carrying Mexico to the United States inside Law Enforcement EXCLUSIVE Fusion. the Fusions had come the spare-tire compartments of Task Force com- It appeared tape was used to from Hermosillo, Ford Fusions via the CSX rail yard mander, revealed secure the marijuana, and rem- Mexico, and had sat in Lordstown. the case to The Vindicator. nants of the tape were found on idle in Chicago 18 An Aug. 7, 2015, incident at the In that case, bales of marijuana 11 other vehicles, suggesting the hours before coming same rail yard, which is off state were found attached to the un- drugs had been off-loaded from to Lordstown. Route 45, never made the news, derside of a new Ford Fusion at PORTAGE COUNTY but the Lordstown Police Depart- the rail yard. See POT, A3 SHERIFF’S OFFICE YOUNGSTOWN National Guard deployed on South Side for the ... WASHINGTON Friends say Defections victim was War on blight scared just by GOP kill hours before health bill he was killed for now By JOE GORMAN Associated Press [email protected] WASHINGTON YOUNGSTOWN The latest GOP effort to repeal Marion Bugdal, who was and replace “Obamacare” was shot to death July 6, asked fatally wounded in the Senate friends if he could make a Monday night when two more pipe he found into a gun Republican senators announced about an hour before police their opposition to the legisla- believe he was killed. tion strongly backed by President Gary Curtis, who lives Donald Trump. on McHenry Street, said he The announcements from saw Bugdal, 52, walk past Sens. Mike Lee of Utah and Jerry his home toward Benning- Moran of Kansas left the Repub- ton Avenue, where Bugdal lived, carrying a pipe he had lican Party’s long-promised ef- found. forts to get rid of President Barack Curtis said Obama’s health care legislation Bugdal had reeling. Next steps, if any, were been com- not immediately clear. plaining Trump says Republicans about a man should just repeal the nation’s VINDICATOR who had current health care law and work ROBERT K. YOSAY | THE VINDICATOR on a new plan that starts from a EXCLUSIVE been both- Pfc. Thomas Pepe, who used to live in Youngstown, is among the members of the 1192nd Engineer Co., based in Ravenna, ering him that is demolishing about 28 vacant houses in Youngstown. “clean slate.” recently and that the man By DAVID SKOLNICK See HEALTH, A3 had robbed [email protected] and beaten YOUNGSTOWN him. ELPING TO TEAR MAHONING COUNTY Bugdal down about 28 saw Curtis in vacant houses in his yard and Youngstown as a Yurich’s wife recalls New they chat- Hmember of the 1192nd Engi- ted, as Curtis and his wife, neer Co. in Ravenna is a par- Carrie, said they often did. ticular source of pride for night of boat crash Bugdal had the pipe and Pfc. Thomas Pepe. By JUSTIN WIER showed it to Curtis. Pepe, of Mineral Ridge, [email protected] used to live in Youngstown. “He was wondering if he YOUNGSTOWN could make a gun out of it,” “I want to give Dr. Angelina Rodriguez, wife of Gary Curtis told a Vindicator something back, Dr. Joseph Yurich, became tearful reporter at Curtis’ kitchen and it’s been as she recalled the moment her table one day last week. a great expe- husband learned someone died In the end, Gary Curtis ONLINE rience,” Pepe in a boat crash on Berlin Reser- said Bugdal decided not to VIDEO said Monday. “I voir in 2015. make a gun out of the pipe See video for never thought “Joe became se- because he was afraid it this story at I’d have the op- verely psychologi- vindy.com portunity to help might blow up in his hands. About 40 members of an Army National Guard unit are razing houses on Youngstown’s cally distressed,” But police said Bugdal used Youngstown, but she said during here we are doing our part. South Side. Among the structures that came down Monday was this vacant one on the pipe about an hour later Clearmount Drive. testimony Mon- to confront Alex New, 20, It means a lot to me because day in Mahoning who had broken into his I used to live here. It helps I NEVER THOUGHT I’D HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO HELP County Common home because New thought Youngstown, and it allows Pleas Court. Yurich Bugdal had gold bars in the us to operate equipment we YOUNGSTOWN, BUT HERE WE ARE DOING OUR PART. IT Dr. Yurich, 38, dwelling. don’t get to use very often.” MEANS A LOT TO ME BECAUSE I USED TO LIVE HERE. IT HELPS of Poland, faces several charges The couple said Bugdal About 40 members of the stemming from the May 9, 2015, Army National Guard unit talked frequently about be- YOUNGSTOWN, AND IT ALLOWS US TO OPERATE EQUIPMENT WE boat crash that left one man dead started demolishing houses ing harassed by New and and another man injured, includ- July 10 on the city’s South predicted something bad DON’T GET TO USE VERY OFTEN.” ing operating a watercraft while See BLIGHT, A3 Pfc. Thomas Pepe, Mineral Ridge See BUGDAL, A3 See YURICH, A2 inside INDEX ‘It’s raining needles’: Drug crisis creates pollution threat Classifi eds . B6 today Associated Press Comics . C4 U LOWELL, MASS. INSIDE: Advice on what Crossword . C3 WARREN SHOOTINGS They hide in weeds along to do if you fi nd syringes in Daily Briefi ng . A2 Warren police are investigating four hiking trails and in play- public. A6 Editorial . A7 shootings over the weekend that Legal ads. A6 ground grass. They wash injured fi ve people. No arrests have collected more than 13,000 Lotteries . A2 into rivers and fl oat down- been made. stream to land on beaches. syringes, compared with Society. C2 LOCAL, A4 Sports. .B1-4 They pepper baseball dug- only about 2,900 the same Tributes. A5-6 ALL-AMERICAN SCHOLAR outs, sidewalks and streets. month in 2016. TV Grid . C3 Notre Dame Syringes left by drug users People, often children, risk Valley Life. C1 College golfer amid the heroin crisis are getting stuck by discarded Weather. A2 Alexa Tringhese, turning up everywhere. needles, raising the prospect World/Business . B5 a Columbiana High In Portland, Maine, of- they could contract blood- graduate, recently ficials have collected more borne diseases such as hep- PLEASE RECYCLE was named an than 700 needles so far this atitis or HIV or be exposed to All-American year, putting them on track remnants of heroin or other ASSOCIATED PRESS Scholar. to handily exceed the nearly drugs. 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