Struthers man to get drug treatment

YOUNGSTOWN -- A former Mahoning County sanitary engineer employee charged with receiving stolen property has pleaded guilty in the county's felony drug court program.
Charges against Carmine J. Ramunno, 23, of Edison Street, Struthers, will be dismissed if he successfully finishes an intensive drug and alcohol treatment program, assistant county prosecutor Raymond M. Tarasuck Jr. said Wednesday. That program may take from one to two years to complete.
Otherwise, Ramunno's guilty pleas will stand and he will be sentenced as charged, Tarasuck said.
Ramunno and his attorney, David Engler, appeared Wednesday before Judge John M. Durkin.
Ramunno was fired from the sanitary engineer's department last December after Boardman police arrested him when he was accused in a home burglary while he was working. Jewelry was taken from the first-floor master bedroom of a home on Overlook Boulevard. Ramunno was a technician who used a Global Positioning System to locate manholes for a database.
Ramunno also was indicted in February with four additional counts of receiving stolen property.