Drug case headed to grand jury
NEWTON FALLS -- Timothy Wyland, a Youngstown man charged with giving drugs to a teenager who died, has been bound over to the Trumbull County grand jury on separate drug-abuse charges.
Municipal Judge Thomas L. Old ordered Wyland bound over on two counts of drug abuse after a Thursday preliminary hearing.
According to police, Wyland, 38, was in the back seat of a vehicle in Braceville Township on Feb. 18 when it was stopped by police because it didn't have a rear license plate.
The vehicle was towed and no arrests were made. During an inventory of the car, cocaine and pills were found in the back seat.
Wyland argued that a K-9 unit called to the scene from Newton Falls when the vehicle was stopped wasn't certified to sniff for drugs.
Judge Old ruled that the drugs would have been found anyway during an inventory of the towed vehicle.
Wyland was also bound over to the grand jury Wednesday after a hearing in Girard Municipal Court on charges of corruption with drugs and permitting drug abuse.
He is accused of supplying drugs to two teenage girls in a Liberty motel room March 25. One of the girls, Cortney Rushwin, 16, of Girard, died the next day.