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Former Warren police officer Noah Linnen, left, looks to his attorney Robert Kokor, right, while being handcuffed by Trumbull County Sheriffâs Office deputy Corey Burns, center, after being sentenced to nine months in prison by Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge Andrew Logan on Tuesday.
Staff photo / R. Michael Semple
WARREN The former Warren police officer who falsely said a black man in a hoodie shot at him will spend the next nine months in the state’s Lorain Correctional Institution.
Noah Linnen, 24, took full responsibility and expressed remorse for his actions on Jan. 13, 2020, and the days that followed, that had police officers from various departments searching for a person who did not exist.