YOUNGSTOWN — Jamie Longnecker, 48, of Berlin Center, who has about 16 months left on a state prison sentence, will be on supervised probation an additional two years after he leaves prison for a federal probation violation, Judge Benita Y. Pearson ruled Tuesday in U.S. District Court.

Federal prosecutors filed a notice of a probation violation against Longnecker in March 2024, nine months after Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Anthony D’Apolito sentenced Longnecker in July 2023 to three years in prison on two counts of felony menacing by stalking.

The menacing charges were for committing offenses against scores of people, including police officers investigating him. The offenses dated back to 2017. His victims were mostly family members or friends of a young waitress at a Berlin Center restaurant where Longnecker once worked, prosecutors said.

Ken Cardinal, county assistant prosecutor, has said that Longnecker put together and mailed envelopes containing “very suggestive sexual references to a young girl, and he was (sending) them to her family members, extended family members, friends, associates and institutions where she was attending school.”

One of the victims spoke at Longnecker’s sentencing hearing, saying his daughter had no “issue with” Longnecker, only “worked at the same place.” He said when his mother died, Longnecker sent a copy of the obituary to his house with a swastika on it.

He told the judge that when Longnecker goes to prison, “you get a little relief. It’s not over. We know it’s not over. You get a little relief. When we leave here and he’s back out, behind a computer, each and every one here is going to be a victim of it,” he said, pointing around the room at attorneys, reporters and the judge. “That’s how he operates.”

During Longnecker’s hearing Tuesday, Judge Pearson sentenced Longnecker to an additional eight months in federal prison, but she ordered that to be served at the same time as the three-year sentence from common pleas court, according to court records. Longnecker pleaded guilty to two probation violations at Tuesday’s hearing, but an attempt to find out what the probation violations were Wednesday was not successful.

The case that led to Longnecker being placed on probation in federal court was a 2021 conviction for being a felon in possession of a firearm.

An affidavit in support of the weapons offense in federal court states that the charge was filed after investigators with the Mahoning Valley Violent Crimes Task Force went to his home Sept. 15, 2020, with a search warrant out of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court and found three firearms underneath a couch in the living room.

He was not allowed to possess them because he had been convicted earlier of menacing by stalking and assault, according to the affidavit.

Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Maureen Sweeney sentenced Longnecker to three years in prison in August 2012 after Longnecker pleaded guilty to one count of felony assault and one count of menacing by stalking for conduct almost identical to his current charges.