YOUNGSTOWN — Mahoning County prosecutors are not making a plea offer to Michael G. Malvasi II in his aggravated vehicular homicide case, which is scheduled for trial Monday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.

Judge Maureen Sweeney also won’t allow the trial to be delayed. On Wednesday, she denied a defense motion to push back the trial.

After a brief final pretrial hearing Wednesday, prosecutors said they are prepared to go forward with Malvasi’s jury trial.

Malvasi, 30, of Timber Run Drive in Canfield, is charged in the Nov. 18, 2017, crash on Shields Road in Canfield that killed passenger Ryan Lanzo, 23, of Boardman.

Malvasi is accused of being the driver of the car and intoxicated at the time of the crash, failing to stop after the accident and tampering with evidence. The last charge accuses Malvasi of tampering with Lanzo’s body.

Sweeney ruled in July that she will allow statements Malvasi made to police officers at the hospital and at home after the crash to be admitted into evidence, but she ruled against allowing evidence from a blood test to be introduced at trial.

Malvasi is accused of driving his father’s car to a location on Shields Road near state Route 46, crashing, leaving Lanzo behind, walking or running home, getting another vehicle, returning to the crash, picking up Lanzo and taking him back to Malvasi’s house.

Lanzo later was pronounced dead on arrival at the St. Elizabeth emergency center in Austintown.

In addition to the homicide charge, Malvasi faces charges of failure to stop after an accident, tampering with evidence and drunken driving.

Some of the charges carry a possible penalty of about eight years in prison if convicted. Malvasi is represented by attorney John Juhasz.

Monday’s jury trial will be the fourth one held in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court since trials resumed in August. As in the earlier trials, clear plastic barriers will be used to provide protection for jurors, witnesses and others against the spread of the coronavirus.

The virus was the reason trials were not held for several months.

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