Former Mathews football star faces charges
By MARLY KOSINSKI Tribune ChronicleVIENNA - A former football standout and 2008 graduate of Mathews High School was arrested early Friday on felony drug charges, according to police.
Brad Hughes, 18, 3954 Youngstown Kingsville Road, Fowler, was charged with cocaine possession, drug trafficking (preparation of drugs for sale) and possession of schedule 2 narcotics (ecstasy), according to a police report. He was issued a summons to appear in Girard Municipal Court Sept. 2.
Vienna officer Nick Macchione said he saw a black car with its dome light on about 1:20 a.m. Friday in a parking lot near the intersection of state Route 193 and Warren Sharon Road in Vienna Center. The driver was Hughes and an 18-year-old Vienna man was in the passenger seat, according to a police report.
Macchione said there was an open beer can on the floor of the car. He searched the vehicle and found a brown paper bag under the driver's seat that contained two plastic sandwich bags of marijuana totaling 7.2 grams, a plastic sandwich bag of cocaine totaling 0.5 grams, six green pills, a digital scale and multiple empty sandwich bags, according to the report. The pills were the drug Ecstasy, the report states.
The car was towed, and Hughes was taken to the Brookfield police station for questioning, after which he was released to his father, the report states.
Vienna police Chief David Ovesny said the arrest shows the need to bring the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program back to the Mathews school district. The Police Department was awarded a $6,480 state DARE grant in February that, along with matching department and school district funds, would have paid for the curriculum and an officer to teach it.
Trustee Heidi Brown said the program was supposed to start in the fall but it has been put on hold because the officer the township chose to be its DARE officer took another full-time job during the day and was unable to teach.
''Chief Ovesny said he did not foresee a problem with getting an extension and we hope to offer the program in the Mathews district in the winter. This incident shows it's definitely needed," Brown said.
Hughes was one of the Mustangs top rushers last year, racking up more than 1,100 yards and 19 touchdowns during the team's 10-0 season that saw them earn a berth in the 2007 regional quarterfinal. He also earned All-Trumbull County honors.
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haleygirlx
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09-03-08 2:28 PM
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& oldgreenb he wasnt sold stuff. someone at a bar stashed it in his girlfriends purse and when they got home they found it, and she is dumb and tried to sell it. i hate her.
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haleygirlx
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09-03-08 2:26 PM
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VICCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC YOU ARE SO ******* ANNOYING. SERIOUSLY.
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victorson
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09-01-08 8:35 PM
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nope its not going to work, there are too many studies that not only show its failure, but also show slightly higher rates of drug use with this overglorified Los Angelas based drug program. its best not to try to fix something that aint broken, or in this case you may be actually making it worse. On the other hand I would support spot checks with drug dogs, or mandatory drug testing. I can remember trumbull county used to come in with the dogs, maybe you could check into that?
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ptllm1743
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09-01-08 1:26 AM
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Hey Vic,, In my opinion,,if D.A.R.E were to save one person,,I think it would be worth it,,ESPECIALLY if it would be one of my kids. And if you dont want to vote for the levy,,then don't,,thats your choice.
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victorson
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08-28-08 7:02 PM
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I will be voting against the vienna police levy based on how this newspaper artical was rushed to the newspaper as what appears to be a jump on the bandwagon way of expanding the police department. Perhaps if an OSP officer pulled him over, his name wouldn't have been all over the newspaper with pleas to support a highly questionalbe dare program, which has only been shown to be a waste of tax payers dollars.
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victorson
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08-28-08 5:27 PM
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well I guess the vienna police department knows more then the surgeon general who said it doesn't work, or the journal of american psy who says it doesn't work, and even time magazine who had an artical on it and said it doesn't work. but hey, we have to spend tax payers $$$ anyway, and as long and they can give us... Give 'em the old razzle dazzle Razzle Dazzle 'em Give 'em an act with lots of flash in it And the reaction will be passionate Give 'em the old hocus pocus Bead and feather 'em How can they see with sequins in their eyes? What if your hinges all are rusting? What if, in fact, you're just disgusting? Razzle dazzle 'em And they;ll never catch wise! sorry I had to add that:)
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oldgreenb
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08-28-08 4:50 PM
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haleygirl- i am sorry you lost someone close to you (well, I think maybe close, not going there though for privacy). so was it related that he was sold stuff? that is the point I am getting at. i sure hope that since you were not raised in a 'shithole' as you call it, you could formulate better words that the ones that involve *********************. there is rehab and now he will be introduced to jail, maybe prison. hopefully he will learn fromthe hardened criminals that this is not the way of life. those who sell never know how many times drugs change hands and where they end up. they could end up in a child's hands (yours or mine) who takes them thinking they are candy or what not and dies.
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Billdog
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08-28-08 1:36 PM
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I have never heard that DARE can create an increase in substance use, yet there is no evidence that it deteres substance use. It is somehow unimportant that Sweden has lowest substance abuse problem on the planet, and AMA won't ask them about there prevention plan. DARE in and of itself is a good start. Prevention programs are not a one time intervention if they are to be effective. This is DARE's flaw. DARE has no reinforcement or repetition. Repetion and reinforcement is how we learn, and retain information.
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victorson
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08-28-08 1:23 AM
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I would recommend that you consult a member on our school board for more details on the subject (the one who has a doctorate), and find out and why it may actually have a negative effect on what your trying to do...DARE that is. It would be upsetting to me that once the grant is up, shelling out the cash on a program that may not only fail, but actually make the problem worse.
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ptllm1743
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08-27-08 11:15 PM
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statements like what vic?
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victorson
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08-27-08 10:51 AM
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I am afraid if the Vienna Police Departent continues with such statements like this I am going to have to Vote NO on the tax levy this Fall.
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victorson
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08-27-08 10:49 AM
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Vienna police Chief David Ovesny said the arrest shows the need to bring the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program back to the Mathews school district.
scientific studies of the program report that D.A.R.E. does not actually decrease drug use among graduates. Some studies have even indicated that there is an increased rate of drug use among D.A.R.E. graduates. The only thing that works is mandatory drug testing.
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Billdog
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08-27-08 10:32 AM
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This poor kid can't get a Pell Grant now or any Ohio money for a number of years to go to college. I guess his football days are long gone and his family has to live with the shame. How sad, that our youth find this as a way to have fun and make money.
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ptllm1743
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08-27-08 6:43 AM
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Excellent job Nick,,you did good.
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haleygirlx
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08-26-08 7:40 PM
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for anyone that doesn't know his family they were very very disappointed in him and also tried very hard to keep him clean and out of trouble. for the longest time his dad was bringing him and picking him up from school to make sure he was there. also brad being a graduate shouldn't have any reflection on any mathews current students. yes he attended school here but mathews graduates aren't the only students ever caught with drugs. if you want dogs to come in to sniff the school they should do it to ever trumbull county school district as well. brad went through the DARE program and all it does is introduce you to drugs and the terms and meanings. and as far as our football team they aren't drug tested but which school in the trumbull county area is on a regular basis? you shouldnt just set criteria for any certain schools. i'm not defending brad or saying he should get away unpunished i'm saying that this should not be a reflection on our school or the students there.
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notions
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08-26-08 6:54 PM
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It is MATHEWS not MATTHEWS. Don't criticize the school and the people there if you can not even spell it, because obviously you don't attend it and have no clue what actually goes on there. thanks.
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haleygirlx
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08-26-08 6:48 PM
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noo he wasnt my friend with benefits or my party buddy. and you act like nobody else in the ******* world sells drugs. take a drive to warren or youngstown. thats all they ******* do. and for your information *******, my uncle did die in june from something drug and alcohol related, so i do know what its like. I wasnt raised in a shithole either, nor do i smoke blunts. I never said that brad ment no harm either, ****face.
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oldgreenb
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08-26-08 10:05 AM
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HALEYGIRL-- it sounds like you lost your 'friend with benefits' and your party buddy. he was caugth with drugs and had the intent to sell with the items that were found!! hello, you are the stupid one. let a family member of yours die because of something drug related and then you tell me, 'oh its ok, he ment no harm.' go back to the*****whole you were raised in somke another blunt.
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victorson
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08-25-08 10:41 PM
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No offence but you shouldn't use our Lords name like that, especially defending a druggie.
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haleygirlx
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08-25-08 9:45 PM
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wow all you people are stupid. you don't know anything about mathews except gregito, cause i know him personally. now shut up, seriously. its annoying, like nobody at any of your schools ever did anything wrong. jesus, it has nothing to do with our school anyways, he graduated last year & was obviously done with our school.
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sparklebee
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08-25-08 8:00 PM
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obviously if i said im dissapointed in him for getting into this*****and that i think he needs to spend time in jail for it, im not into drugs. think before you accuse, people.
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victorson
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08-25-08 2:39 PM
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I'm just curious. How many out of the area kids now attend mathews? At one time it was the kind of school where everyone was in the same class from kindergarden. Has that changed much?
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VoiceOfReason
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08-25-08 2:24 PM
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Dschweck, I would ask you what your point is? I had a point, but I'm at a loss for your point. Whatever. Please don't feel compelled to answer since my question to you was really rhetorical.
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oldgreenb
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08-25-08 11:20 AM
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send his a## to jail, it is people like him that sell to our children, conduce drive by's and get innocent people killed. yeah all of you 'friends' of his would not be standing up for him, if a bullet ment for HIM killed your child over a bad drug deal. I hope he goes to the PEN!!!!!!!!!!
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purple51
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08-25-08 10:24 AM
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Drug dealers don't usually have to rob places. It is the guys on the drugs that do that. I would imagine that this guy has enough money from his parents and his drug business that he doesn't have to rob and kill anyone. Most drug dealers only kill each other or someone who owes them money for drugs. It is the people on drugs who rob and kill innocent people. We need to concentrate on getting rid of people on drugs and the dealers will have no one to make their money from. Unrealistic, I know, to think that would happen, but as long as we have poor people who need drugs they are going to rob, steal and even kill to get what they need. And as long as there are people addicted to drugs there will be a market for those drugs and the addicts will continue to try to get what they need any way they can.
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