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WARREN A special report of a Trumbull County grand jury Monday charges a former superintendent of the Liberty Local School District with six felonies and five misdemeanors.
A state auditor’s investigation accuses Joseph S. Nohra Jr., 49, of Topper Hill Drive, Hubbard, of bugging a school district office in 2018.
Nohra is named in direct indictments on six counts of interception of wire, oral or electronic communications, and five counts of interfering with civil rights. The first charges are fourth-degree felonies and the second batch are first-degree misdemeanors.
Nohra resigned in June 2020 as Liberty superintendent. According to assistant county Prosecutor Charles Morrow, the charges stem from an investigation from an incident occurring over two weeks in April 2018. Morrow said none of the intercepted communications involved students or children. A report, however, stated Nohra is accused of installing video surveillance on the ceiling and recording