MAHONING CO. Inmate to face assault charges

The Austintown man will be sentenced next week for a robbery and slashing.
By BOB JACKSON
VINDICATOR COURTHOUSE REPORTER
YOUNGSTOWN -- An Austintown man awaiting sentencing for the robbery and slashing of a woman last summer was indicted Thursday by a Mahoning County grand jury in the assault of a man who testified against him.
Jacob DiCarlo, 22, of Ayrshire Drive, faces charges of intimidating a witness and felonious assault.
Authorities said he beat up 42-year-old Daniel Farah earlier this month in the county jail.
DiCarlo and Michael Kapsouris, 25, of South Raccoon Road were both on trial at the time on charges of aggravated robbery and felonious assault. A jury convicted them on both charges, and they will be sentenced next week by Judge Robert Lisotto.
Each could get up to 18 years in prison.
Farah is serving a four-year prison sentence for unrelated charges of theft and receiving stolen property.
He was brought back from prison to testify for prosecutors about comments Kapsouris made to him while they were both locked up in the county jail. He said Kapsouris admitted to him that he and DiCarlo had committed the crimes.
Farah was being held in the county jail until he was needed in court. He told deputies that DiCarlo punched him in the face at least twice while they were standing with other inmates in a hallway at the jail.
When Farah testified three days later, he had gauze in his right nostril and said his nose was still bleeding from the assault.
Deputies assaulted
Also indicted Thursday was Patrick Gaitor, charged with two counts of felonious assault. His address is listed as Mahoning County Jail.
The indictment says that Gaitor, 30, who's an inmate at the county jail, assaulted Deputy Joseph Iberis in January and Deputy Wilson Valentin in August.
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