Sean R. Rex tried to rob the business and struck a woman in the head with a gun

Sean R. Rex, 32, who has no permanent address, was arrested at 2:06 a.m. Wednesday at Margie's T-Bird Lounge at 1425 15th St. SW. Rex was in the Stark County Jail where he was held without bond Thursday.
Police reports show Rex tried to rob the business and struck a woman in the head with a gun, said Lt. James Cole. Rex was charged with aggravated robbery, illegal possession of a firearm in a liquor establishment, having weapons under disability, carrying concealed weapons, cocaine trafficking, cocaine possession, felony drug tampering and resisting arrest. Jail records said he was wanted on an unrelated warrant in Carroll County. Jail records said he tried to fight with police at the bar, pulling out a .25-caliber semiautomatic handgun, then grabbing an officer's gun that had "fallen loose." He was shot with a Taser gun and arrested, jail records said. The officers said they found him with powder cocaine, Xanax pills, digital scales and bags of marijuana. The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction Web site shows Rex went to prison in 1997, 1999 and 2002 for felony weapons convictions, and for drug trafficking and weapons convictions in 2002.

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