$7M bond is set for man accused in two slayings

The suspect has a criminal record in four states, police said.
By DAVID SKOLNICK
VINDICATOR STAFF WRITER
YOUNGSTOWN -- Judge Elizabeth A. Kobly said the $7 million bond she set for a 25-year-old Youngstown man accused of killing two women is a record amount for her.
Antonio D. Jackson, of Summer Street, surrendered to police, who had active warrants for his arrest.
Judge Kobly, of Youngstown Municipal Court, arraigned Jackson on Friday on two counts each of aggravated murder and aggravated robbery and three counts of kidnapping. She set bond at $1 million per charge.
The judge said it was the highest bond she ever set during her five years on the bench, and believes it is one of the highest bond amounts ever set in the city's municipal court. There have been cases in which suspects were held at the Mahoning County jail without bail.
A preliminary hearing for Jackson is set for 10:30 a.m. Dec. 12.
'On our radar'
Police Lt. Robin Lees said officers were trailing Jackson for some time, but were always one step behind him. Jackson realized police were going to find him soon so he surrendered Friday, Lees said.
"He was on our radar early on and it was just a matter of time before we found him," he said.
Jackson is accused in the Aug. 7 murder of Sierra Y. Slaton and the Nov. 20 slaying of Tahnee Y. Jackson (no relation).
Slaton, 19, of Vestal Road, was found floating in McKelvey Lake on the East Side around 6:30 p.m. Aug. 7, shot once. She left home at 12:40 p.m. Aug. 6 and was reported missing late that night by her mother.
When asked if there were other accomplices or co-conspirators in the Slaton death, Lees said the investigation is continuing.
Tahnee Jackson, 29, of Cassius Street, was found shortly before 4 a.m. Nov. 20 floating in a creek in a wooded area near Erie Street and Earle Avenue on the South Side. She had drowned.
Jackson's friend, a 25-year-old Plazaview Court woman, told police the two gave a ride to two men from the East Side to a Belmont Avenue bar.
Tahnee Jackson was beaten by Antonio Jackson, who held her head under water until she drowned, police said.
The Plazaview Court woman told police Antonio Jackson bragged to her that was the eighth person he murdered, Lees said.
"We don't know anything about the other six, but we'll look into them," he said. "We don't discount anything."
The woman told police she believed she was going to be his next victim, but Jackson was pulled over by Patrolman Pat Mulligan for a traffic violation with the Plazaview Court woman still in the vehicle, Lees said.
Jackson ran from the vehicle and successfully eluded police, Lees said.
In court, Dana Guarnieri, a senior assistant law director who handled the arraignment, said Jackson has 14 aliases and lists eight different birthday dates. He also has criminal convictions in Ohio, California, Nevada and Pennsylvania for carrying a concealed weapon and robbery, among other charges, she said.
Another arraignment
Also arraigned Friday in the kidnapping and aggravated robbery, but not the murder of Tahnee Jackson, was Jason Clark, 23, of Verona Avenue, Youngstown.
Judge Kobly arraigned Clark on two counts each of aggravated robbery and kidnapping. She ordered him held in the county jail on $300,000 bond pending a preliminary hearing at 10 a.m. next Friday.
Clark was released from a federal prison in June after serving about five years for conspiracy to distribute cocaine and illegal possession of a firearm, Lees said. Clark is on parole, Lees said.
Also arraigned Friday in a separate case in front of Judge Kobly was Stephan M. Carlomagna, 19, of Warner Road, Liberty, on a charge of aggravated vehicular homicide.
A warrant was issued for his arrest, and Carlomagna turned himself in to police Friday.
Carlomagna is being held in county jail on $10,000 bond pending a preliminary hearing at 1:30 p.m. Dec. 16.
Carlomagna's blood-alcohol content registered 0.187 after a Nov. 19 head-on crash on Mahoning Avenue near Maryland Avenue in which his passenger, 18-year-old Edrow W. Stargell II of Catherine Avenue, Liberty, was killed. The legal alcohol limit is 0.08.
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