YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown firefighter Adaris Bellamy, a Howland resident, is on paid administrative leave from the city after his arrest on an aggravated menacing charge in Warren Township.

City Law Director Lori Shells Simmons said Tuesday that Bellamy is on paid administrative leave with a pre-disciplinary hearing scheduled for Thursday. The leave is directly related to his arrest, she said.

Records in Warren Municipal Court show Bellamy, 34, of Longview Drive NE, was charged April 7 with the first-degree misdemeanor by Warren Township police.

Bellamy is accused of having a rifle at the Warren Township Fire Department and pointing it at someone in the West Market Street building. Court records list a 41-year-old Warren Township man as the victim.

Bellamy was arraigned April 8, the day after his arrest, by Warren Municipal Court Judge Natasha K. Natale. He was released on a $15,000 surety bond after pleading not guilty to the charge, court records show.

The judge ordered Bellamy to have no contact with the Warren Township Fire Department except for emergency purposes and to surrender all firearms to the township’s police department while the case is pending.

Bellamy is scheduled to return to municipal court Friday for a hearing in front of Judge Patricia Knepp.

Bellamy was hired by Youngstown as a firefighter in 2016 after graduating from Youngstown State University. His salary last year was $57,400.

While attending YSU, Bellamy spent four years as a running back on the football team.

Bellamy is the second Youngstown firefighter to be arrested in the past two months.

Fire Lt. Patrick Bundy, 46, of Poland, was charged Feb. 20 by the Ohio Attorney General’s Office with workers’ compensation fraud and theft, both fifth-degree felonies; the amount of the alleged theft is $5,880.

Bundy, hired by Youngstown in February 2010, pleaded not guilty March 6 to the charges and was released on a $2,000 bond. His trial date is May 8 in Franklin County Common Pleas Court.

Bundy is supposed to start a six-week unpaid suspension Monday from the Youngstown Fire Department, said Chief Barry Finley. Bundy’s salary last year was $66,512.

The attorney general’s office contends Bundy worked for EFI Global as a fire inspector while also receiving workers’ compensation benefits from Jan. 16, 2022, to Feb. 26, 2022, he “was not entitled” to obtain or “presented a false or misleading statement with the purpose to secure” those benefits “with purpose to defraud or knowing he was facilitating a fraud.”

The attorney general’s office contends Bundy “signed and submitted multiple applications for temporary total disability benefits wherein he indicated that he was not working since he was injured. In addition, the defendant made multiple misrepresentations regarding his work activity to the BWC and / or its representatives.”

Franklin County Judge Kim J. Brown is hearing Bundy’s case.