YOUNGSTOWN Dylan N. Walters pleaded guilty Thursday to felony vehicular assault in a 2021 head-on crash on state Route 46 in Austintown. The crash serious
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Trenton Nored, left, is shown during his plea and sentencing hearing Thursday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court alongside his attorney, Lou DeFabio.
YOUNGSTOWN An assistant county prosecutor told Judge John Durkin of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court that the behavior of a Coitsville Township police officer, when the officer chased a man on a moped Aug. 6, 2020, is a reason for the type of plea agreement the man received this week.
Assistant Prosecutor Nick Brevetta told The Vindicator he would not discuss the specifics of the officer’s behavior, but a letter from Youngstown Police Department internal affairs officer Brian Butler sheds some light on it.
YOUNGSTOWN Assistant Prosecutor Nick Brevetta said he realizes he probably sounded more like a defense attorney than a prosecutor in explaining why he plans to recommend Ladale Jennings get probation and no jail time in a Feb. 23, 2020, robbery and burglary in Austintown.
Jennings will be sentenced at 9 a.m. June 10 after a presentence investigation is completed. He is free on bond.
“I’m arguing, oddly enough, not to put him in prison,” Brevetta told Judge John Durkin of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court on Tuesday. Later in the hearing, Jennings, 21, pleaded guilty to reduced charges of robbery and burglary. He could get about four years in prison.