YOUNGSTOWN — Larry Burgess, 36, was sentenced Tuesday to five-to-six years in prison after pleading guilty earlier to six mid-level felony counts of compelling prostitution, one high-level felon of corrupting another with drugs and one low-level felony of cocaine trafficking.

Burgess pleaded guilty to the eight charges in late August before Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge Anthony Donofrio, who also handed down the sentence Tuesday.

The prosecution and defense jointly recommended the sentence. Burgess had an address in Youngstown in another criminal case from 2024. Burgless’ six compelling prostitution indictments state that he compelled another person to engage in sexual activity for hire.

His corrupting another with drugs indictment states that between Dec. 22, 2023, and Dec. 23, 2023, Burgess administered or furnished a person with a controlled substance, or induced or caused the person to use a controlled substance, and thereby caused serious physical harm to the person or caused the person to become drug dependent.

Burgess was indicted March 27 on 26 charges, including rape, but 18 charges were dismissed in exchange for his guilty pleas to the eight charges. He gets credit for 323 days spent in the Mahoning County jail awaiting trial.

When Burgess leaves prison, he will be classified as a tier-2 sex offender, meaning he must register his address with the sheriff’s office where he lives every 180 days for 25 years.

Burgess was sentenced in Mahoning County to 18 months in prison in 2017 after being convicted of a weapons offense and a drug possession offense. He also was sentenced to eight years in prison in Mahoning County in 2008 on two counts of aggravated robbery when he was 19.