Trumbull County Common Pleas Court Judge Ronald Rice is facing a felony weapons charge and drunken driving after he allegedly possessed a firearm while intoxicated and crashed on Scoville North Road north of Niles Vienna Road in Vienna Township Friday night.

Rice, 69, who was re-elected to another six-year term as judge in November, had a single-vehicle rollover crash at 6:52 p.m., according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol, which investigated the incident.

The highway patrol did not indicate in a news release whether Rice was injured. No crash report was available Monday afternoon. The crash remains under investigation, Ohio State Highway Patrol Public Information Officer Logan Nowlin stated in an email Monday.

Nowlin stated that Rice, of Brookfield, was driving a 2025 Mini Cooper south when he failed to negotiate a curve and traveled off the right side of the roadway. The vehicle struck two traffic signs and overturned in a ditch.

Meanwhile, Rice’s wife, Cynthia Wescott Rice, who is also a Trumbull common pleas court judge, filed for divorce Wednesday, according to the court’s online docket.

Filing in Trumbull County Domestic Relations Court, Rice’s wife cited gross neglect of duty, extreme cruelty, adultery and incompatibility as reasons she is seeking divorce, according to the docket.

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