Man pleads guilty in Warren burglaries

WARREN -- A 35-year-old Warren man pleaded guilty to numerous charges related to burglaries at two Warren houses last May and was sentenced to seven years in prison.
Billy R. Morrow Sr. of Mahoning Avenue Northwest was arraigned Thursday in the Trumbull County courtroom of Judge John Stuard on charges of aggravated burglary with a firearm specification and grand theft. These were related to a burglary May 9 at 1783 North Road N.E. in which he took guns and jewelry.
At the same hearing, he pleaded guilty to those charges -- and also charges from a May 16 break-in and police chase. He then was sentenced.
Ken Bailey, an assistant Trumbull County prosecutor, said Morrow's attorney sought to have him declared incompetent, but was denied. Morrow has been in jail May 16.
Bailey said the second burglary occurred at a house at 1665 Norwood St. N.W. in which Morrow and an accomplice entered the house through a kitchen door while the house was occupied by a woman and her two children.
The woman spotted the men, who ran out of the house and drove off in a car reported stolen a day earlier. An Ohio State Highway Patrol officer noticed the stolen vehicle in the city a couple of hours later and followed it. The men were arrested, Bailey said.
In the second burglary, Morrow faced charges of burglary, receiving stolen property (a motor vehicle) and failure to comply with the orders of a police officer.