More charges levied in home invasion case

YOUNGSTOWN — The Mahoning County grand jury has issued a superseding indictment against a man charged with a June 11 home invasion on Belden Avenue.

The superseding indictment adds a second aggravated robbery count against Derrick J. Harmon, names the victims in each of the two robbery counts and adds repeat violent offender specifications to all counts. If Harmon is convicted of any of the repeat violent offender specifications, one to 10 years would be added to any prison sentence he receives, said Martin P. Desmond, assistant county prosecutor.

Harmon, 28, of Eastway Drive, also known as Derrick Harman, was initially indicted on aggravated robbery, aggravated burglary, and felonious assault charges, and two counts of kidnapping with firearm and body armor specifications to all counts.

Galen Hobdy, 13, of Akron, was visiting the Belden Avenue home of his father, Forrest Adams, when a masked gunman wearing a bulletproof vest forced his way in. The ordeal left Adams with knife wounds to his left hand and upper arm. The gaping wounds came from a kitchen knife the intruder snatched after dropping his gun. Adams cut the intruder with a decorative ax and Hobdy shot the intruder, according to police reports. Harmon, who gave another man’s name in the hospital, was charged with the home invasion.