Staff photo / Ed Runyan James Tubbs Jr., left, stands with his attorney, Lou DeFabio, on Wednesday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court while pleading guilty to two counts of aggravated assault with one gun specification for a July 3-4, 2020, incident involving two victims.

YOUNGSTOWN — James H. Tubbs Jr., 26, pleaded guilty Wednesday to two counts of aggravated assault with one gun specification for an incident July 3-4, 2020, involving two victims, a man and woman.

Other charges were dismissed in exchange for his plea before Judge Maureen Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, and Tubbs of Youngstown, will be sentenced later. He could get up to five years in prison.

Mahoning County prosecutors are asking Tubbs get the five years in prison, but his attorney, Lou DeFabio, said he will be asking for 3 1/2 years in prison.

Tubbs was charged in July 2020, but he was free until he turned himself in at the Mahoning County jail in March 2022 on warrants. One of the warrants was for two counts of felonious assault in the July 3 to 4 case.

The felonious assault charges included drive-by specifications that could have added more prison time if Tubbs had been convicted, but those specifications were dismissed in exchange for his guilty plea.

Additional details on the nature of the crimes was not available.

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