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Kimonie Bryant, right, listens to his attorneys, from left John Juhasz and Lynn Maro, during a hearing Tuesday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court in Bryantâs aggravated murder case. In the back is sheriffâs deputy James Weeden.
YOUNGSTOWN Two more co-defendants were indicted last month on death penalty-level charges in the aggravated murder case against Kimonie Bryant, but their cases will not be tried together.
During a pretrial hearing in Bryant’s case Tuesday, prosecutors said that when more than one person is indicted on charges that could lead to a death sentence, all must be tried separately.
YOUNGSTOWN Robert A. Basic, 44, of Oak Trace Street in Austintown, will spend nine years in prison after pleading guilty Nov. 30, 2020, to 20 child pornography charges then failing to appear for his sentencing Jan. 21.
Basic and Ryan N. Markenkovic, 44, of the Mahoning County jail, were charged with pandering obscenity after an investigation by the Mahoning Valley Human Trafficking Task Force.
The task force used search warrants at the homes of the two men Aug. 11, finding evidence of child pornography, Maj. Jeff Allen of the Mahoning County Sheriff’s office said.
Basic was indicted on 50 counts of pandering obscenity involving a minor for having child pornograpy on a computer. He later pleaded guilty to 20 counts, and prosecutors were offering to recommend six years in prison.