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LISBON A New Waterford area man who beat, tied up and robbed a 91-year-old woman in her own home was sentenced to at least nine years in prison in addition to another sentence he is already serving.
Cody Harmon, 32, state Route 46, New Waterford, appeared in Common Pleas Court for sentencing before Judge Scott Washam on Thursday after pleading guilty in March to aggravated burglary, felonious assault, tampering with evidence and grand theft of a motor vehicle.
Assistant County Prosecutor Steven Yacovone said Harmon was familiar with 91-year-old Helen Dilling and that she lived by herself with some family in homes nearby. Dilling was asleep when Harmon entered her home on Sept. 21, 2019 and she was awakened by the smell of cigarette smoke, according to Yacovone, so she barricaded herself in her bedroom.
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LISBON A 40-year-old Salem man described his own actions as “juvenile” during a plea and sentencing hearing in Common Pleas Court on Wednesday.
William D. Barrett, East Fifth Street, pleaded guilty to vandalism, a fourth-degree felony, after he and another inmate at the county jail were caught throwing recreational basketballs at cameras at the county jail on March 9, 2020.
“It was a very juvenile act,” Barrett told Judge Megan Bickerton while apologizing for his actions prior to sentencing. “Me in my right mind wouldn’t throw basketballs at cameras at the county jail.”
Barrett’s defense attorney, Jennifer Gorby, said Barrett had three other cases in 2019, all within a four-month period and all while he was using methamphetamines at the time. On the highest felony, complicity to burglary, Barrett was sentenced to at least four years and six months in prison with the possibility of more time. Gorby said Barrett indicated it had taken him nin