WARREN A Youngstown man has filed a civil action against a Liberty roofing company and a supervisor for wrongful termination and also accused the firm of discrimination and lacking in safety practices.
The Trumbull County Common Pleas Court lawsuit filed on behalf of Andre Davis of 443 Aurora Drive, names as defendants TEMA Roofing Services LLC of Motor Inn Drive in Liberty and superintendent David Pugh.
The suit originally was filed in December and was transferred from Mahoning County Common Pleas Court last week. It has been assigned to Judge Peter J. Kontos.
The suit also charges the company with discrimination against the African-American former employee. The company also was accused of not giving Davis the proper progressive disciplinary steps before his firing on Sept. 12, 2019.
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WARREN A Howland man was sentenced to a indefinite sentence of three- to four-and-a-half years in prison in connection to a drug case, triggered by an August 2020 traffic stop where Warren police officers were looking for burglary suspects.
Nicholas A. Gilmore, 31, of 7967 Raglan Drive, Howland, pleaded guilty to two counts aggravated possession of drugs and another count of possession of a fentanyl-related compound. Gilmore, who also has a North Road address in Niles, also faces aggravated drug-trafficking and possession charges in another Trumbull County Common Pleas case out of Bazetta Township.
Judge Ronald J. Rice said any sentence that may come out of the Bazetta case will run consecutively to the prison term he gave Gilmore on Thursday. The next pretrial hearing in the Bazetta drug case is scheduled for March 15 before Judge Peter J. Kontos.
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WARREN A Niles man caught by police last March attempting to break into a safe at Huntington Bank inside a Niles Giant Eagle store received a 18-month prison sentence.
Joshua T. Huey, 33, of Williams Street, appeared Monday before Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge Peter J. Kontos for sentencing. Huey and his attorney Robert Kokor asked for leniency, but Kontos opted for a prison sentence after hearing the argument from assistant Prosecutor Charles Morrow, who sought for a three-year prison term.
In a prepared statement, Huey said he was disappointed, embarrassed and ashamed by his actions.
In a police report, Niles police were called after 2 a.m. March 15, 2020, to the Giant Eagle where they heard the noise of a power tool and smelled hot metal before finding a 32-year-old man, identified as Huey, attempting to use power tools to break into a safe at the Huntington Bank.
WARREN A Liberty condominium group of 41 lot owners within the Kline’s Farm development has sued the community development group, its real estate agency and others, alleging violation of community rules.
Members of Kline’s Cove and its condominium association filed a lawsuit in late January in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court against Kline’s Farm Community Inc., Altobelli Real Estate, Home and Land Developers, Kline’s Farm Master Association and BrodMor Inc. property management group.
The owner of Altobelli Real Estate, however, said the lawsuit comes down to difficulties with one individual in the condo group.
A check of the Trumbull County Auditor’s Office website shows that single-dwelling properties in the development are valued in the $240,000 to $280,000 range. The condos at Kline’s Cove are rental properties, with leases going for $1,200 per month.