YOUNGSTOWN — Joshua W. Johnston, 36, who allegedly failed to yield the right of way while crossing state Route 82 in Vienna on Nov. 10, resulting in a collision that killed one passenger and severely injured another, was scheduled for sentencing last week on a separate burglary and other charges.

Johnston’s sentencing is now pushed back to 9 a.m. Dec. 3 before Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court. Johnston pleaded guilty Sept. 26 to three felonies for an episode at his ex-girlfriend’s home in Beloit — burglary, menacing by stalking and obstructing official business, according to court documents. His plea agreement calls for him to get one year in prison.

A Smith Township police report states that officers were called to a home on Dogwood Drive in Beloit, just east of Sebring, at 10:01 p.m. June 3 for an active burglary. When a Smith Township police officer arrived, she was advised that the suspect was inside a vehicle trying to leave the area.

The suspect “failed to stop” when a Sebring officer approached him in his cruiser, the report states. The suspect then drove around the Smith Township officer’s cruiser despite the officer activating an air horn siren and yelling for the suspect to stop, the report states. The driver went into a yard and continued to travel on Sebring Lake Estates, though the two officers were able to arrest the suspect soon afterward.

The Smith Township officer took cigarettes and a lighter from the suspect and put them on the roof of the suspect’s car, but the man then reached inside the car and refused to show his hands, the report states. The Smith Township officer pulled the man out of the car, and the two officers were able to handcuff the man, identified as Johnston, the report states.

The resident of the home told officers that Johnston is her ex-boyfriend. He lived with her until he moved out a week earlier, she said. He removed all of his belongings and gave her his key because she is the property owner, she said.

Johnston had been harassing and stalking her since they broke off their relationship several weeks earlier, she said. He had called her phone more than 50 times, and she reported the calls to the Columbiana Police Department because she was in Columbiana at the time, she said.

On the evening of Johnston’s arrest, he came to her home and kept harassing her to speak to him. When she refused, he kept trying to find a way to get into the home, she said. She called 911. Suddenly, she saw Johnston inside the home and she did not know how he got in. A second woman also was in the home.

An officer then checked the property and found that a side door had been forced open. Johnston, who has an East South Range Road in North Lima address in court documents, was taken to the Mahoning County jail.

In the Nov. 10 crash, Johnston was driving southbound on Warner Road in Vienna at 8:13 p.m. when he failed to yield the right of way while entering state Route 82, the highway patrol stated in a press release. His car was struck on the passenger side by another car traveling eastbound on Route 82, the news release states.

A passenger in Johnston’s car, Miranda Zullo, 35, of Youngstown, was killed, and a second passenger, a juvenile, was taken to the hospital with life threatening injuries, the release states. Johnston suffered non-life-threatening injuries, and the driver of the other car suffered minor injuries, according to the state patrol, which is investigating the crash.

None of the people in Johnston’s car were wearing safety belts. Johnston has an extensive record of seat belt violations in Mahoning County dating from 2009 through 2022, most of them being issued by troopers from the Canfield Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol, according to court records.