North Side man gets prison term for fleeing cops


September 11, 2007 at 5:52p.m.

North Side man gets prison term for fleeing cops

YOUNGSTOWN — A city man with a long criminal record has been sentenced to five years in prison on charges of receiving stolen property and fleeing police.

Judge Maureen A. Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court imposed the sentence today on Willie L. Oliver Jr., 37, of Alameda Avenue, for a May 2006 pursuit in which Oliver drove a stolen car. A jury convicted Oliver of the charges last month.

Boardman police briefly pursued the car Oliver was driving from South Avenue and U.S. Route 224 to the U.S. Route 224 and I-680 interchange on May 8, 2006, ending the chase to avoid endangering the public, and Youngstown police arrested him the following day on the city’s North Side, said Michael McBride, assistant county prosecutor.

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