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LISBON -- A Youngstown man was sentenced to nine months in prison for the assault of a police officer during a Leetonia incident in February.
Chad Love, 36, previously of Salem, entered guilty pleas in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court to the fourth-degree felony assault and misdemeanors of falsification, obstructing official business and criminal mischief.
A charge of attempt related to an attempt to steal a car and two counts of criminal mischief were dismissed. He received credit for 188 days already served in jail.
On Feb. 6, Love gave a false name and ran away from officers trying to take him into custody in Leetonia after incidents when he damaged cars and ripped off the hand rail to the post office building and assaulted a police officer. He also attempted to steal a car.
Also in Common Pleas Court:
-- Phillip E. Steele, 63, Highland Drive, East Liverpool, pleaded guilty to fourth-degree felony domestic violence, with sentencing set for Nov. 6. Steele was accused of causing physical harm to a woman at a residence on Duke Vodrey Road in St. Clair Township on Jan. 19 to Jan. 20, with a previous domestic violence conviction on his record.
-- Brian Gerren, 60, East Main Street, Salineville, pleaded guilty to aggravated possession of drugs, a fifth-degree felony, with sentencing set for Sept 28. Gerren possessed methamphetamine on May 3, 2022.
-- Reva McCullough, 32, Gipner Avenue, East Liverpool, was ordered to serve a time of incarceration at the Eastern Ohio Correction Center until the program is completed as an added condition for probation. McCullough violated her probation for fifth-degree felony charges of theft from a person in a protected class and misuse of credit card from an incident in August 2021. The prosecutor recommended she remain on probation, but with the added condition of the EOCC.