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Man charged in the deaths of Marine recruits remains free
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Donald P. Williams
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WARREN
Donald P. Williams Jr. of Austintown, charged with aggravated vehicular homicide and aggravated vehicular assault in the deaths of three Marine Corps recruits March 31, remains free on $50,000 bond.
Williams was charged in a superseding indictment last week with additional charges that could lead to a prison term of up to 40 years. His original indictment had a maximum penalty of 191/2 years.
In court Wednesday, Mike Burnett, assistant county prosecutor, asked Judge Andrew Logan of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court for Williams’ bond to be increased to $250,000, but Judge Logan refused.
The judge did further restrict Williams’ travel to within Ohio, however.
Previously, Williams, 45, of Bainbridge Avenue, was prohibited from driving a tractor-trailer and was allowed only to drive to work within 100 miles of his home.
Williams’ newest charges say he was “drug drunk” on Valium and a similar drug, Nordiazepam, while listening to heavy-metal music and speeding.
His tractor-trailer cab hit the back of a vehicle containing the recruits that was stopped at the intersection of state Route 5 and Burnett Street just west of Warren.
Williams’ arraignment was changed from today to Wednesday to accommodate the schedule of Williams’ attorney, J. Gerald Ingram, court officials said.
Williams is scheduled for his next pretrial hearing Jan. 11.
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i cant vote for judge logan but if i could he would be gone they must be related or something or the judge was touched inapropratley by a marine when he was young you kill 3 people high on pills and you get to walk around and go where you want i just dont understand ????
This whole accident and subsquent investigation has smelt fishy from the beginning. I am sure his employer has a lot riding on this case since surely they will be held liable and involved in a civil lawsuit The question is what may Judge Logan owe to NST? One must wonder how a truck company in this day could have hired and allowed someone with his past behind a wheel.The tragedy is what hell these victims families have been put through and now they must play the Valley game of delay and delay and delay again! As Deep Thoat said, "follow the money,it always comes back to the money".