Guilty pleas come in home invasion case

WARREN — Dean Morrison, who helped tie up a 72-year-old Bazetta woman and hit her 51-year-old son in the head with a piece of metal several times last Halloween, mouthed the words “I’m sorry” to his victims as he left court Monday.

Morrison, 51, of Wooster, had just tearfully pleaded guilty to charges that could put him in prison for 46 years. He will be sentenced in about a month.

Morrison was to go on trial on five charges in the courtroom of Judge Andrew Logan in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court Monday, but that stopped with his plea. He pleaded guilty to two counts of felonious assault, one of aggravated burglary, one kidnapping, and one aggravated robbery.

“I’m somewhat relieved that there will be no trial,” said Helen Parks, now 73, just after the hearing. She and her son, Bruce Parks, now 52, said they are glad they won’t have to endure a trial.

“They had no right to come into my home,” she said.

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