Staff photo / Ed Runyan
Eugena Russo, left, cries as she apologizes Wednesday to the loss prevention officer from the Boardman Kohlâs store. Russo got a sentence of two to three years in prison for pepper spraying the loss prevention officer after the officer confronted her in the parking lot about items she had stolen from the store. At right is her attorney, Bradley Olsen.
YOUNGSTOWN Eugena M. Russo, 38, of Randolph Street, New Castle, Pa., pleaded guilty Wednesday to robbery for shooting pepper spray into the eyes of a store loss prevention officer in order to get away.
Judge Anthony Donofrio sentenced her to two to three years in prison.
YOUNGSTOWN Lily L. Johnson 24, of Homewood Avenue, was sentenced to six months in the Mahoning County jail Wednesday for leading Youngstown police on a chase.
She had called them to her home Sept. 6, 2020, over a domestic dispute with the father of her two children.
Johnson pleaded guilty earlier to failure to comply with the orders of a police officer and could have gotten up to three years in prison.
Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court said he would not send her to prison because no one got hurt and Johnson had no previous criminal record.
But he said: “I do believe you need to be punished and made an example of for your deliberate disregard for anything and everything but your desire to get to your grandmother’s house or wherever you were going.”