TRUMBULL COUNTY Man sentenced on multiple charges

The defendants also received stiff sentences in Mahoning County.
By PEGGY SINKOVICH
VINDICATOR TRUMBULL STAFF
WARREN -- A 30-year-old Liberty Township man has been sentenced to 26 years in prison.
In a brief hearing Wednesday, Judge W. Wyatt McKay of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court said Jamal A. Bullock is a danger to the public, noting 10 prior convictions and three prison terms.
Bullock pleaded guilty in August to two counts each of aggravated robbery, aggravated burglary and kidnapping and one count each of receiving stolen property and burglary.
Police said Bullock and his co-defendant, Christopher McBride, 20, entered a home on Parkview Avenue in Hubbard Township in August 2002 and threatened a woman with a knife.
While McBride sexually assaulted the woman in her 50s, Bullock went through the house and took jewelry, authorities said.
Hubbard Township Detective Michael Begeot said McBride and Bullock also were accused of robbing a Shadyside Drive woman in her 70s of jewelry and her car.
McBride's sentence
McBride was sentenced to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of aggravated robbery, two counts of aggravated burglary, two counts of rape, two counts of kidnapping and one count each of receiving stolen property and burglary.
McBride and Bullock also pleaded guilty in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court to three counts each of aggravated robbery, three counts robbery, single counts of burglary and aggravated burglary and three firearm specifications, meaning they used a gun to commit crimes in that county.
Mahoning County officials said the men rousted and robbed several people who were walking in a Youngstown park in August 2002. They also robbed an elderly couple on Melvina Avenue on the city's East Side and robbed a house in Campbell, all within a span of three days.
Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge R. Scott Krichbaum sentenced both men to 28 years in prison on those charges.