Peaceful protesters hold signs while listening to speakers calling for racial justice outside the Mahoning County Courthouse during a May 31 rally. A diverse crowd of several hundred marched from First Presbyterian Church on Wick Avenue in Youngstown.
YOUNGSTOWN A city man convicted of a federal ammunition offense Dec. 28 tried to turn the city’s peaceful May 31, 2020, protest over the death of George Floyd, 46, into a violent one, a police report says.
The protest was in response to Floyd’s death May 25 in police custody after a former Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck to restrain him.
Ronald T. Green, 24, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Cleveland to being a felon in possession of ammunition and will be sentenced April 19. He is in the Mahoning County jail.
YOUNGSTOWN Kahlil L. Sheridan, 24, of Cook Avenue in Boardman, learned Wednesday he will not go to prison for abducting his infant daughter June 25.
But the terms of his five years of probation mean he can visit the child, but must now move out of the home where he abducted her. He and the child’s mother reconciled after the abduction and are now living together.
Sheridan could have gotten as much as three years in prison.
Youngstown police issued an Amber Alert after Sheridan took the child from her mother’s house on Moherman Avenue. Sheridan and the child’s mother did not live together at the time.
YOUNGSTOWN James A. Jones, 35, of Sherwood Avenue, received a six-month jail sentence Wednesday after pleading guilty earlier to cruelty to a companion animal.
Authorities said a pit bull mix died in Jones’ yard of malnutrition. Animal Charity / Humane Society investigated complaints and found the dog dead, prosecutors said.
Before sentencing, Jones told Judge Anthony Donofrio of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court: “I really love animals” and showed the judge photos of other dogs in his care. Jones said the dog that died belonged to his nephew.
“I would never hurt an animal,” Jones said. The examination of the dog after it died showed that it had food in its stomach, Jones said. He also has argued that the dog may have died from an illness.
BOARDMAN A Canfield woman is sentenced to jail for a hit-skip case last year in Boardman.
Rachel Stouffer, 32, of Canfield, was sentenced Monday to 180 days in jail with a $1,000 fine by Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, according to court documents.
She was sentenced on one charge of failure to stop after an accident, which is a first-degree misdemeanor. As part of a plea deal, a charge of driving with a suspended license was dismissed.
Stouffer was arrested in November 2020 after she failed to appear in court for the June 12 incident, where she struck Brian Price of Boardman at the corner of Glenwood Avenue and Wildwood Drive in Boardman.
Staff photo / Ed Runyan
Brandon Clinkscale, right, stands with his attorney, Walter Madison, on Tuesday while addresssing Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court. The judge gave Clinkscale three years in prison for driving his brother to Cleveland after his brother fired shots at plainclothes investigators with the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
YOUNGSTOWN Brandon Clinkscale, 28, got the maximum sentence of three years in prison Tuesday for driving his brother, Marquise J. Hornbuckle, 26, to Cleveland after his brother fired shots at undercover state highway patrol investigators Nov. 8, 2019, on the South Side.
It was the sentence prosecutors recommended after Clinkscale pleaded guilty earlier to one count of obstruction of justice. Both brothers had an address on West Evergreen Avenue.