Bucheit's trial reset for April

Bucheit's trialreset for April
CLEVELAND -- U.S. District Judge Lesley Brooks Wells has granted a defense motion by Boardman attorney J. Gerald Ingram and reset trial to April 21, 2003, for Bernard J. Bucheit, who once owned Bucheit International in Boardman.
The trial had been set for Dec. 2. Ingram was recently retained as counsel.
Bucheit, 69, of Florida, is charged with conspiracy to violate the federal bribery statute, giving an unlawful gratuity to a public official and perjury before a federal grand jury.
He is accused of doing roughly $30,000 worth of contracting work at the Greenford horse farm of then-U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. in the early 1990s and not requiring payment.
Weathersfield mancharged in drug sales
NILES -- A Weathersfield Township man faces charges of trafficking in drugs.
Wilbur "Sonny" Rorison, 64, of Crestmont Drive, was taken into custody Thursday by officers from the Trumbull County Drug Task Force, the Trumbull County Sheriff's Department, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the Weathersfield and Niles police departments.
Rorison, who appeared Friday in Niles Municipal Court, is accused of selling OxyContin, Vicodin and morphine to undercover officers.
Police searched his home and seized a 1973 Chevrolet truck, a 2002 GMC Envoy, 2001 Harley Davidson motorcycle, a 1987 Chevrolet Corvette and $5,000 in cash.
In an unrelated investigation, Rorison's grandson, Robert Rorison, 25, of 112 Williams St., was arrested Wednesday on a secret indictment charging him with one count of aggravated trafficking in Ecstasy and two counts of aggravated trafficking in OxyContin. He remains in the Trumbull County jail.
Anyone with information on this arrest or drug-related crimes can call the Drug Task Force's Tip Line at (877) 835-4375.
Dogfighting sentence
YOUNGSTOWN -- Stanley Jones, 20, of South Garland Avenue, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for his involvement in dogfighting.
He pleaded guilty earlier this year in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court. Judge Maureen A. Cronin gave Jones credit for 184 days he's spent in the county jail while the matter was pending.
Jones was accused of participating in a dogfighting operation in the city.
Boccieri offended
NEW MIDDLETOWN -- State Rep. John Boccieri is offended by a radio ad by Randy Pope, his Republican opponent, which the incumbent says mocks and belittles his military service record.
The ad includes a mock interview with Boccieri, who answers questions by saying, "I fly airplanes." The ad began running Thursday.
Boccieri, a New Middletown Democrat, is a pilot in the Air Force Reserve.
"It's inexplicable that my opponent would make such an attack at a time when I may have to leave my family to defend our country in Iraq," Boccieri said.
Attempts to reach Pope, an Alliance Republican, were unsuccessful Friday.
Judge appointsschool director
MERCER, Pa. -- Mercer County Common Pleas Court has named Glen W. Allen Jr. to fill a vacant seat on the West Middlesex Area School Board.
Gary Koncar resigned last month, and the eight remaining board members were unable to agree on a successor who will serve the remaining 13 months of his term.
The board met Oct. 14 and interviewed five candidates then voted to turn the matter over to the courts.
Pennsylvania law requires school boards to fill vacancies in 30 days.
Allen, of Wozniak Road, New Wilmington, will serve until Dec. 1, 2003.
The three judges who sit on the court interviewed the five candidates starting around noon Friday.
Man robbed in Farrell
FARRELL, Pa. -- A Masury man was robbed at gunpoint at Fruit Avenue and George Street.
The victim told police two men approached him around 11 p.m. Thursday and one pulled a gun, demanding his valuables.
Market burglarized
WEST MIDDLESEX, Pa. -- Burglars took the store safe, steaks and other items from Black's Market at 3519 Sharon Road. Employees discovered the burglary around 5:30 a.m. Oct. 26 but police didn't report the theft until Friday.
Woman hurt in mishap
HUBBARD -- A 78-year-old Hubbard woman was in stable condition in a local hospital after she drove into a freight train Friday morning on state Route 304.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol said a CSX train was stopped on the tracks.
A pickup truck driven by Margaret Ensley, 63, of Youngstown, that had stopped for the train did a U-turn and Marion McClintock of West Liberty Street moved forward, glanced off the pickup and drove into the side of the train, the patrol said.