Wednesday, November 29, 2006
YOUNGSTOWN — An Austintown man was sentenced to five years in prison on two robbery counts and a Youngstown man to two years in prison for imprinting a hot iron on his live-in girlfriend’s chest in their residence.
The sentences were imposed Wednesday by Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, who denied the defendants’ motions to withdraw their Oct. 10 guilty pleas and followed the prosecutor’s sentencing recommendation in both cases.
Gary P. Brainard Jr., 37, of North Redgate Lane, who had pleaded guilty to two robbery counts, was sentenced to two years for robbing a taxi driver May 11 on Lynnhaven Drive and three years for robbing a man outside his apartment on Woodhurst Drive on May 16, with the prison terms to be served consecutively (one after the other) for a total of five years.
Brainard apologized for his actions and told the judge he suffers from drug addiction, and the judge said he would recommend to state prison officials that they enter Brainard into drug treatment immediately after he arrives at a prison.
Judge Krichbaum sentenced Dontrell Weaver, 19, of East Lucius Avenue, to two years in prison for burning his girlfriend with the clothing iron July 18. Weaver had pleaded guilty as charged to felonious assault. Natasha Frenchko, assistant county prosecutor, said she did not know the motive for the attack.