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LISBON A Youngstown man was sentenced to 18 months in prison following a hearing on drug-related charges in Common Pleas Court this week.
At 25 years old, Robert Manigault, of Youngstown, had a lengthy conversation with Judge Megan Bickerton prior to sentencing about his long criminal history.
“Obviously you are a young man and this has been a course of your life for a long time,” Bickerton said, adding in a letter he wrote to the court he seemed as if he wanted to make a change.
But after he committed the crimes of tampering with evidence and possession of heroin in Columbiana County, Manigault had been charged with additional charges in Mahoning and Stark County. Assistant County Prosecutor Alec Beech said he has had recently had multiple charges on multiple days in multiple jurisdictions. One of those pending charges is a first-degree felony cocaine charge.