YOUNGSTOWN Jail time for friend of Koliser

The Youngstown man has called the county jail home for the past month.
By DAVID SKOLNICK
VINDICATOR STAFF WRITER
YOUNGSTOWN -- A friend of a suspect in the killing of a Youngstown cop will spend the next 21 days in the Mahoning County Jail.
Municipal Court Judge Elizabeth A. Kobly also ordered Jonathan A. Kuzan, 23, of Oakwood Avenue to pay a $100 fine Tuesday. She didn't place Kuzan on probation.
"There's no reason to put you on probation," the judge told him. "I don't think you're going anywhere."
Kuzan has been in the county jail for the past month on $100,000 bond on an obstruction of justice charge.
The case
Kuzan was charged in June 2002, and the case was reset at least four times.
He was supposed to be sentenced April 29 on charges of speeding, driving with a suspended driver's license and driving with expired license plates.
Instead, police say Kuzan was helping Martin L. Koliser Jr. flee to Florida that day. Police say Koliser shot to death city Patrolman Michael T. Hartzell in his cruiser downtown and critically wounded Donell J. Rowe outside a West Side bar April 29. Police say Koliser was then taken to Kuzan's apartment by another friend and Kuzan allowed the accused killer to shower and change clothes there.
This was Kuzan's third conviction for driving without a license.
"The standard sentence for that is a couple of weeks in jail," said Judge Kobly, who gave him three weeks.
Three other friends of Koliser, who police say helped the 30-year-old Boardman man leave Youngstown the day Hartzell was killed, are being held in the county jail on $100,000 bond each. They are charged with obstructing justice.
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