Peaceful protesters hold signs while listening to speakers calling for racial justice outside the Mahoning County Courthouse during a May 31 rally. A diverse crowd of several hundred marched from First Presbyterian Church on Wick Avenue in Youngstown.
YOUNGSTOWN A city man convicted of a federal ammunition offense Dec. 28 tried to turn the city’s peaceful May 31, 2020, protest over the death of George Floyd, 46, into a violent one, a police report says.
The protest was in response to Floyd’s death May 25 in police custody after a former Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck to restrain him.
Ronald T. Green, 24, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Cleveland to being a felon in possession of ammunition and will be sentenced April 19. He is in the Mahoning County jail.
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WARREN A former Warren G. Harding girls basketball coach is requesting parole from his 15-years-to-life sentence after his conviction in the strangulation death of his wife, Deana, at their Warren home in May 2004.
David Jenkins, 58, who is housed at Marion Correctional Institution, is scheduled for his first hearing before the Ohio Parole Board this month, and assistant Trumbull County Prosecutor Christopher Becker wrote a letter advising the board about his office’s opposition to Jenkins’ release.
In his letter, Becker states facts of the case were very straightforward. It was well known in the community that Jenkins and his wife were having marital problems, and Deana had told a number of close friends by May 2004 she was leaving her husband.
WARREN A former Warren G. Harding girls basketball coach is requesting parole from his 15-years-to-life sentence after his conviction in the strangulation death of his wife Deana at their Warren home in May 2004.
David Jenkins, 58, who is housed at Marion Correctional Institution, is scheduled for his first hearing before the Ohio Parole Board this month, and assistant Trumbull County Prosecutor Christopher Becker wrote a letter advising the board about his office’s opposition to Jenkins’ release.
In his letter, Becker states facts of the case were very straightforward. It was well known in the community that Jenkins and his wife were having marital problems and Deana had told a number of close friends by May 2004 she was leaving her husband.
Mootispaw to be released after 39 years in prison
By Ryan Carter - rcarter@recordherald.com
Mootispaw
By a 7-3 margin, the Ohio Parole Board voted recently in favor of granting Rusty Mootispaw release from prison on or after Feb. 16, 2021 subject to strict conditions of parole.
Mootispaw has served 39 years in prison after being convicted in 1981 of murdering Lillian McCarty, an 85-year-old Washington C.H. woman.
In the Ohio Parole Board decision and minutes document released this week, the board found that Mootispaw, 57, “has served a sufficient portion of his sentence, has completed programming to abate his risk to reoffend, has made an acceptable institutional adjustment and has a supportive release plan thereby rendering him suitable for release onto parole supervision at this time.”
SANTA MONICA, Calif. Collier Landry got text messages offering congratulations when the Ohio Parole Board denied his father s latest attempt at parole. I don t think congratulations is really the best choice of words, said Landry, now a 42-year-old Los Angeles-based cinematographer and filmmaker. Congratulations is something to say when someone wins the lottery. Something like this is a little more touchy and bittersweet, I suppose. This is sort of a tough one.
Landry was a key prosecution witness in the July 1990 trial of his father. On the one hand, it s a challenge because of the heinous crime my father committed and his overall lack of remorse for what he did and the impact it had on so many people, the collateral damage it did, Â said Landry, who was 12 when he took the witness stand in the month-long trial of the century in Richland County Common Pleas Court.