YOUNGSTOWN A city man accused of having homemade bombs in his Hillman Street home on the South Side now is detained in federal custody after a hearing in U.S. District Court.
A criminal complaint filed Jan. 11 alleges Oliver Smith, 51, possessed explosive materials, a firearm and a gun silencer. He was not allowed to have these items because of a previous felony conviction.
The case began with a Federal Bureau of Investigation special agent being informed in early October that Smith had a firearm and silencer at his home in the 2800 block of Hillman Street, according to an affidavit in support of a criminal complaint filed against Smith by U.S. attorneys.
YOUNGSTOWN Lily L. Johnson 24, of Homewood Avenue, was sentenced to six months in the Mahoning County jail Wednesday for leading Youngstown police on a chase.
She had called them to her home Sept. 6, 2020, over a domestic dispute with the father of her two children.
Johnson pleaded guilty earlier to failure to comply with the orders of a police officer and could have gotten up to three years in prison.
Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court said he would not send her to prison because no one got hurt and Johnson had no previous criminal record.
But he said: “I do believe you need to be punished and made an example of for your deliberate disregard for anything and everything but your desire to get to your grandmother’s house or wherever you were going.”
Peaceful protesters hold signs while listening to speakers calling for racial justice outside the Mahoning County Courthouse during a May 31 rally. A diverse crowd of several hundred marched from First Presbyterian Church on Wick Avenue in Youngstown.
YOUNGSTOWN A city man convicted of a federal ammunition offense Dec. 28 tried to turn the city’s peaceful May 31, 2020, protest over the death of George Floyd, 46, into a violent one, a police report says.
The protest was in response to Floyd’s death May 25 in police custody after a former Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck to restrain him.
Ronald T. Green, 24, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Cleveland to being a felon in possession of ammunition and will be sentenced April 19. He is in the Mahoning County jail.
BOARDMAN A Canfield woman is sentenced to jail for a hit-skip case last year in Boardman.
Rachel Stouffer, 32, of Canfield, was sentenced Monday to 180 days in jail with a $1,000 fine by Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, according to court documents.
She was sentenced on one charge of failure to stop after an accident, which is a first-degree misdemeanor. As part of a plea deal, a charge of driving with a suspended license was dismissed.
Stouffer was arrested in November 2020 after she failed to appear in court for the June 12 incident, where she struck Brian Price of Boardman at the corner of Glenwood Avenue and Wildwood Drive in Boardman.