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WARREN A Youngstown man has filed a civil action against a Liberty roofing company and a supervisor for wrongful termination and also accused the firm of discrimination and lacking in safety practices.
The Trumbull County Common Pleas Court lawsuit filed on behalf of Andre Davis of 443 Aurora Drive, names as defendants TEMA Roofing Services LLC of Motor Inn Drive in Liberty and superintendent David Pugh.
The suit originally was filed in December and was transferred from Mahoning County Common Pleas Court last week. It has been assigned to Judge Peter J. Kontos.
The suit also charges the company with discrimination against the African-American former employee. The company also was accused of not giving Davis the proper progressive disciplinary steps before his firing on Sept. 12, 2019.
WARREN A Newcomerstown woman has filed a wrongful death suit on behalf of the estate of her late husband against the operators of the Warren coke plant, cla
Feb 20, 2021
WARREN Two people were arrested on warrants after Warren police officers were called to a Westwood Street NW address Thursday night to investigate a disturbance involving guns.
A caller told a dispatcher an argument ensued among a group of people; two with guns were threathening the others at the home.
Four officers came to the home and two people came out, carrying the guns openly. The two cooperated with authorities, the report states.
Officers had to coax three others to come out, the report states.
Two of them, Crissy Lee Wortman, 39, and Jonah Mazzochi, 39, were arrested on active warrants from Warren Municipal Court. Wortman was being held without bond in a theft and endangering children case, while Mazzochi was wanted for a probation violation linked to a 2019 possession of a fentanyl-related compound conviction in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court.
Two Mahoning Valley men appeared before federal judges this week answering to gun charges.
David Lee Owens III, 26, whose last known address was in Compass West Apartments in Austintown, pleaded guilty Thursday to a federal charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Owens, a former Warren resident, entered a guilty plea before federal Judge Pamela A. Barker, who ordered the defendant undergo a background report prior to sentencing, which is scheduled for 9 a.m. June 10.
The defendant remained in custody, according to court reports.
The case stems from an Aug. 2, 2020, incident involving a vehicle Owens was driving, being chased by the Ohio State Highway Patrol into the city of Warren.