Saturday, July 29, 2006
The man is accused of giving drugs to a girl who later died.
WARREN -- Timothy Wyland, the Youngstown man accused of giving drugs to a 16-year-old Girard girl who later died, has agreed to freeze the assets he received when he inherited money from his father's estate.
Wyland, 38, who is charged with one count of corrupting with drugs and two counts of permitting drug abuse, is free on $250,000 bond pending consideration of his case by a Trumbull County grand jury.
During a hearing in Girard Municipal Court, a 17-year-old girl had testified that she and a friend, Cortney L. Rushwin, spent time in a hotel room in Liberty Township with Wyland on March 25. Rushwin and Wyland made several trips to the restroom, where the friend said she assumed they used drugs.
The friend said Wyland later gave her heroin.
Rushwin, a Girard High School student, died the next day.
On July 7, Kathryn E. Migliozzi of Girard, Rushwin's mother, filed a lawsuit in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court seeking $2 million in damages and asking for a restraining order to keep Wyland from moving his assets.
Deal
On Friday, Judge Peter Kontos signed a temporary order. It states that attorneys for Migliozzi and Wyland agreed to freeze Wyland's $600,000 in assets but to allow him to use the interest he earns from the money.
The order says Wyland has about $600,000, received from his father's estate, invested in the stock market.
Money from the principal will also be released for the payment of Wyland's attorneys, Ronald D. Yarwood and J.P. Morgan, the filing states.
According to Migliozzi's lawsuit, Wyland gave Rushwin marijuana, cocaine and heroin. It said the temporary restraining order on the assets is necessary because Wyland was actively trying to conceal his assets.
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