YOUNGSTOWN Shauntae M. Findley, 32, of New York Avenue, pleaded guilty to felony assault Thursday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court and received two
WARREN A Youngstown man, who in 2019 was acquitted of a murder charge in Mahoning County, on Thursday received an indefinite prison term between five and seven years after pleading guilty to a host of felonies connected to a June 2020 incident involving a gun at a Liberty Township home.
Albert D. Byrd IV, 26, of 1102 Wilshire Drive, pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated burglary, two counts of felonious assault, one count of kidnapping, one count of burglary and one of count domestic violence. Five of the charges carried firearms specifications, which added one mandatory year to the prison sentence.
Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge Ronald J. Rice, who had agreed to the jointly recommended sentence by prosecutors and the defense attorney, ordered Byrd to register as repeated violent offender in Ohio.
YOUNGSTOWN A man accused of holding dozens of law enforcement officers at bay for three hours at a home on Aberdeen Avenue on the South Side last summer is competent to stand trial.
Attorney Lou DeFabio told Judge Maureen Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court on Wednesday that he and defendant Brandon Turjonis will not challenge the findings contained in a report from the Forensic Psychiatric Center of Northeast Ohio in Austintown that Turjonis is competent to stand trial.
Under Ohio law, a person cannot be tried in court if he or she is incapable of understanding the nature and objective of the proceedings against him or her, and assisting in his or her defense.
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.”