NEWTON TOWNSHIP SLAYINGS Police link suspects to double homicide

By TIM YOVICH
VINDICATOR TRUMBULL STAFF
WARREN -- Two Youngstown people are charged in the deaths of a Newton Township woman and her daughter.
The U.S. Marshals Service was looking Friday night for Jermaine McKinney, who has had several addresses in Youngstown.
McKinney was charged Friday with two counts of aggravated murder and one count each of kidnapping, aggravated robbery, aggravated burglary and aggravated arson.
Frank Tomaino, Newton Township police chief, said McKinney has had about eight addresses in Youngstown.
Earlier in the day, Keyatta J. Riley Hines was arraigned before Judge W. Wyatt McKay of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court. Her last known street address isn't available from authorities, but she was arrested in Warren.
She is being held in Trumbull County jail in lieu of a $100,000 cash or surety bond. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 1 p.m. Jan. 9 before Judge McKay.
The bond was recommended by David Toepfer, an assistant county prosecutor.
The bodies of Wanda Rollyson, 70, and her 45-year-old daughter, Rebecca Cliburn of Warren, were found Dec. 22 in the basement of Rollyson's home at 3754 Newton-Bailey Road.
Both women were burned beyond recognition and were identified by the jewelry they were wearing when slain.
Hines' charges
Hines, who has no criminal record, is charged with complicity to aggravated robbery and complicity to aggravated burglary of Rollyson and Cliburn.
She is also charged with complicity to kidnapping Cliburn.
Toepfer pointed out that kidnapping is not only moving a person from place to place against his will but restraining a person of liberty. Thus, the kidnapping of Cliburn could have taken place in the house.
The complicity to aggravated burglary charge involves Rollyson's residence.
"This is what she is charged with right now," Toepfer said, noting there will be additional arrests in the case.
Anyone with information about the whereabouts of McKinney is asked to contact the Marshals Service, (866) 492-6833. A $2,500 reward is being offered for information leading to his arrest.
James Lewis of the Ohio Public Defenders Office is assigned to represent Hines. Neither Lewis nor Toepfer would say if Hines is cooperating with investigators.
During her arraignment, Judge McKay cautioned Hines that she has the right not to talk with police. Hines was dressed in orange-colored jail overalls and tennis shoes and was handcuffed. She faces a maximum 30 years in prison if convicted on all the charges.
Rollyson has been described as a church-going woman.
Cliburn was under indictment on charges of aggravated trafficking in cocaine and aggravated trafficking in drugs when she was killed. She had been free on $5,000 bond.
The bodies were found when a grand-niece of Rollyson went to the house to check on Rollyson. She smelled an odor of burning and called 911.
Police found blood in the house and the bodies in the middle of the basement.
The home had been the scene of a previous burglary when entry was gained through a back door. Syringes used by Rollyson to take insulin to control her diabetes were taken.
Originally the case was being handled by the Newton Township Police Department, but was turned over to the sheriff's department because more manpower and equipment is available.The township has only two full-time officers, including the chief.