WARREN — A Hubbard man who was convicted of possession or more than three grams of methamaphetamine received a 30-month prison sentence Tuesday.

Mark Lilly, 32, of Fairlawn Avenue, told Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge Ronald J. Rice he could have made up some “sob story” about being addicted to drugs, but decided to step up and take responsibility.

He pleaded guilty to a third-degree aggravated possession of drugs felony that carried a maximum three-year prison term.

“I don’t want to be doing this when I’m 40 or 50,” Lilly told the judge before he was sentenced to a recommended term that was agreed upon by his lawyer and prosecutors.

Lilly was arrested during an Aug. 31, 2021, traffic stop by Liberty police after he was found with suspected drugs that later tested positive for methamphetamine.

In other drug-related cases in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court:

• Echo Kennedy, 29, of Burton Street SE, Warren, pleaded guilty to a single fifth-degree aggravated possession of drugs charge and will submit to a background investigation conducted by county probation officers prior to sentencing. She faces a possible six month to one-year prison sentence after she was stopped by Weathersfield police on Dec. 20, 2021, with suspected substances that later tested positive for methamphetamine. Kennedy was recently sentenced to probation by Judge W. Wyatt McKay, including a stint in the Northeast Ohio Community Alternative Program for a similar drug possession conviction;

• Jack Humenik, 36, of state Route 193, Vienna, pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor attempted aggravated possession of drugs and one misdemeanor attempted possession of cocaine charges. Humenik will be sentenced by Judge Andrew D. Logan after he undergoes a background investigation by the probation department. His case stems from an arrest by Howland police March 3, 2022, after a traffic stop;

• Rebecca K. Martinez-Reed, 54, of Kenilworth Avenue SE, Warren, will begin her five-year probation with a sentence to NEOCAP, a rehab that teaches life skills as an alternative to prison. Martinez-Reed failed in a bid for intervention in lieu of conviction for a possession of fentanyl-related compound conviction. Logan warned the woman to take of herself to guard against possible overdoses;

“You have spent too much time in the criminal courts,” the judge told her.

Martinez-Reed’s drug offense took place in March 2021 in Warren. She had hoped to have the conviction wiped out by remaining drug free for at least a year, but did not remain clean, probation officers stated.