Man to be sentenced for attacks, slurs
After urinating on Christmas tree, he charged after two witnesses
YOUNGSTOWN — Peter D. Levitski, 31, of Newbern Circle, pleaded guilty Wednesday to felony intimidation, domestic violence and ethnic intimidation in a Dec. 9 incident in which he “went after” two people he lives with and then made numerous racial slurs toward the police officer who arrested him.
Prosecutors and the defense jointly agreed that Levitski should get 18 months in prison on the two mid-level felonies of intimidation and domestic violence and the low-level felony of ethnic intimidation.
Judge Maureen Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court will sentence Levitski after a presentence investigation of Levitski’s criminal history and background is carried out.
A Youngstown police report states that officers were called to Newbern Circle at 8:22 p.m. Dec. 9 regarding a domestic situation and spoke with someone at the house who said Levitski, his relative, was intoxicated and urinated on the Christmas tree. Another person in the home heard the sound of liquid and went to see what was going on and saw Levitski urinating, the witness said.
The second person in the home started to yell at Levitski, who then “went after” that person before “turning his attention to” the first witness, police were told, according to the police report.
Officers were trying to speak to the second person, but Levitski “came outside being belligerent,” and one of the officers tried to keep Levitski away from the witness. The second witness repeated what the first witness had told police except that the second witness did not say that Levitski “placed hands” on the second witness, the report states.
The second witness was asked how the shirt of the first witness got ripped, and the second witness said it happened because Levitski and the first witness were “wrestling” when the first witness “thought that Levitski had hit me,” the report states. One of the witnesses answered yes when police asked whether Levitski did “physically place hands on you to hurt you,” the report states.
After Levitski was told he was being arrested and charged with domestic violence, Levitski stiffened up his body, but officers were able to put Levitski in a police cruiser. While Levitski was being taken to the Mahoning County jail, he made several threats on the life of one of the officers, saying he would murder the officer “for taking me away from my family” and also uttered many racial slurs.