IRONTON — An Ironton man was sentenced to three years in prison Wednesday in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court after pleading guilty to tampering with evidence and felony vandalism for
IRONTON â A Coal Grove man was sentenced this week in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court to more than five-and-a-half years in prison for violating community control sanctions.
Robert W. Stevens, 34, admitted violating community control sanctions and was sentenced by Judge Andy Ballard to more than 67 months in prison.
In an unrelated case, Tyron Markel, 45, of County Road 45, Ironton, pleaded guilty in a felony case and was placed on community control sanctions for four years and ordered to complete up to a 135-day program at the STAR Community Justice Center in Franklin Furnace, Ohio.
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Charles McKenzie, 57, of the 300 block of Ridgeway Street, Coal Grove, admitted violating community control sanctions and was ordered to complete the program at STAR.
IRONTON â A Wheelersburg, Ohio, man rejected a plea deal last week in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court that would have sent him to prison for five to seven-and-a-half years.
Tyron Markel, 45, of County Road 45, was indicted last year on charges of felonious assault. He also faces community control sanctions violations.
Judge Andy Ballard set the case for trial May 3. It would be the first criminal trial in the county since the pandemic started more than a year ago. Jurors in the case will have to be socially distanced, Ballard said.
In an unrelated case, Ballard set a July 8 trial for Fred R. Aldridge, 40, of Ohio River Road, Wheelersburg. He is charged with two counts of aggravated trafficking in 392 grams of meth, 24 grams of fentanyl and two counts of aggravated possession of drugs.