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WRITER: Ed Runyan

Sentencing for killer of Rowan postponed

YOUNGSTOWN — The sentencing for Brandon Crump Jr., 21, in the Sept. 21, 2020, shooting death of 4-year-old Rowan Sweeney was scheduled for today, but it was postponed Monday after Crump’s attorney filed a motion asking for more time for the parties and the judge to consider the specifics of Crump’s age at the time of his offenses. As a result of the filing, Judge Anthony D’Apolito of Mahoning ...

Ringleader of $1M arson ring in Valley gets no prison time

YOUNGSTOWN — Nearly three years after a three-county investigation uncovered $1 million worth of insurance fraud and seven people were indicted in an arson scheme, the ringleader, Tricia Floyd, 71, of Youngstown, pleaded guilty to seven low-level felony charges and was sentenced to probation Monday. Judge John Durkin of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court said Floyd could neither be imprisoned nor forced ...

Crump case amps up fair-trial safeguards

YOUNGSTOWN — Last month, for the first time in about five years, a trial in Mahoning County drew so much attention from the public that when it went to trial, Judge Anthony D’Apolito ordered that about 80 potential jurors be individually questioned about the amount of pretrial publicity each had received in the case. It is an extra layer of jury selection that takes place prior to the traditional type ...

City man indicted on charges involving mother of his children

YOUNGSTOWN — Rayvon V. Parker, 25, of North Bon Air Avenue, was indicted Thursday on two counts of felonious assault and one count of aggravated burglary, all with firearm specifications, in connection with incidents from Jan. 16 and May 19, 2022, involving the mother of his children. He was also indicted on two counts of having weapons while not allowed and single counts of robbery, grand theft of a motor ...

Knife attacker receives light sentence

YOUNGSTOWN — Judge Maureen Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court sentenced Tanner Kirkwood, 19, to three years of probation, including 26 days in the Mahoning County jail, which was less than the one year in prison the prosecution and defense recommended. Kirkwood’s convictions were a low-level felony weapons offense and misdemeanor assault for stabbing two men March 31 with a pocket knife outside ...

String of postal key robberies continues in Valley

YOUNGSTOWN — A U.S. Postal Service mail carrier was robbed of his arrow key at 5:10 p.m. Wednesday on Hilton Avenue on the South Side — his final delivery of the day, he told police. The suspect repeatedly told the carrier, “Don’t die over a key, bro,” the carrier told police, according to a Youngstown police report. The carrier was not injured. The robbery follows similar robberies in 2023 in ...

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