Judge sentences man for cruelty to animals

He faces more charges next month.
CAMPBELL -- A 61-year-old Youngstown man was fined $1,000 and sentenced to 360 days in jail after pleading no contest to two counts of cruelty to animals and one count of improper disposal of raw rendering material.
The entire fine and jail term were suspended for Edward Hall of Lansdowne Boulevard in Youngstown after Municipal Court Judge John Paul Almasy found him indigent during a pre-trial hearing Tuesday.
Hall pleaded no contest to the charges. The judge dismissed two other counts of animal cruelty and two counts of improper disposal. The disposal charges refer to not burying dead animals deeply enough.
Hall was given three years' reporting probation, which could be reduced to one year if he cleans up his property at 6712 McGuffey Road in Coitsville Township and removes or destroys the kennels there, court officials said.
Hall was charged by Campbell police Aug. 16 after an Animal Charity investigator found numerous starving animals on his property.
The court also ordered that Hall could not own, possess or keep any animals, said Nikole Owen, Animal Charity chief executive officer.
Hall also faces charges in Youngstown Municipal Court at 9:30 a.m. Dec. 21 in connection with some 40 live animals that Animal Charity found on the Lansdowne property. Also, about 40 animals were found dead there, according to Animal Charity.