WARREN After four days, 12 jurors and four alternates have been selected for Kashaun Williams’ capital murder trial, which begins with opening arguments a
WARREN Security is being heightened in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court as the capital murder trial of Kashaun Williams is set to get underway. The tri
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May 4, 2021
YOUNGSTOWN Derek G. Rinehart, 28, of East Florida Avenue in Sebring, pleaded guilty Monday to attempted aggravated arson, intimidation, inducing panic and obstructing official business for a January 2020 incident in which he threatened to set his grandmother’s house on fire.
Rinehart will be sentenced 10:30 a.m. May 18.
Police successfully removed Rinehart from the home after about five hours of police negotiations. Several streets had to be closed after Rinehart made the threats and refused to come out.
Rinehart told police he had a weapon and had poured gasoline on the floor.
His attorney, Thomas Zena, sought a sanity evaluation a year ago.
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LISBON Tyree DeShaun Robinson pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the overdose death of Joseph Robert Urgitus on Tuesday morning, even through Robinson pointed out during the hearing in Common Pleas Court he had never met Urgitus.
Robinson, 26, of Youngstown, had been scheduled for a jury trial this week before deciding to plead guilty to the only charge he faced, a first-degree felony involuntary manslaughter.
Chief Assistant County Prosecutor Ryan Weikart said both witnesses and text messages link Robinson to the death of Urgitus. During Tuesday’s plea hearing, Assistant County Prosecutor Alec Beech told Judge Megan Bickerton that Robinson sold Urgitus a mixture of both crack cocaine and heroin on March 6, 2019. At the time of the arrest, investigators believed the drugs also may have contained fentanyl.