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Malvasi convicted of drug trafficking

No prison time added per agreement

YOUNGSTOWN — On Monday, Michael Malvasi II was sentenced to 12 years in prison for driving intoxicated, crashing his father’s car, killing his passenger and leaving the scene of the crash.

On Wednesday, he entered a guilty plea to hashish trafficking before the same judge, Maureen Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court. She sentenced him to three years in prison, but it won’t add any prison time because she ordered it to be served at the same time as Monday’s sentence.

Malvasi, 30, of Canfield, was indicted in February 2018 on charges of hashish trafficking and hashish possession, a result of an August 2017 raid at Malvasi’s home on Timber Run Drive in Canfield a couple of months before the crash.

Canfield detectives said they recovered a large amount of marijuana at the time of the raid. Hashish is a potent form of cannabis (marijuana) produced by collecting and compressing the most potent material from cannabis plants.

The charges were second-degree and third-degree felonies. If convicted at trial, he could have received eight years in prison on the trafficking charge.

But according to documents from the Mahoning County Clerk of Courts office, prosecutors amended the hashish trafficking charge to a lower-level felony and dismissed the hashish possession charge in exchange for Malvasi’s plea.

Malvasi faces a possible term of three years of probation on the drug offense when he leaves prison.

Malvasi’s plea and sentence on the hashish charges were added late to the court’s calendar.

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