Berlin Center man gets probation for assault

Berlin Center man gets probation for assault

YOUNGSTOWN — A 19-year-old Berlin Center man is on probation for five years after pleading guilty to aggravated assault in a fight in which he stabbed and critically wounded a Campbell man with a pocket knife in April.

Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court imposed the sentence today on Antonio Morales of Leffingwell Road and ordered him to spend the first four to six months of his probation in residence at the Community Corrections Association halfway house on Market Street.

Morales, originally charged with felonious assault, had pleaded guilty in August to a reduced charge of aggravated assault. The reduced charge said Morales acted under provocation from the victim.

Morales and the victim, Benjamin Chaibi, 21, of Campbell, had been arguing over an undisclosed matter April 29 at a house on Ohio Avenue in Youngstown when Chaibi suffered cuts to his throat and left hand and a puncture wound in his right shoulder, police said.

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