South Side man gets prison term on burglary charge

YOUNGSTOWN — A 22-year-old South Side man was sentenced to three years in prison for breaking into an occupied home on Southern Boulevard in Youngstown last November.

Charzell Calhoun of Parkcliffe Avenue received the sentence today from Judge R. Scott Krichbaum in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court. Calhoun pleaded guilty to a second-degree burglary charge in February.

Police said Calhoun and another man, Jamie Jones, 22, of East Boston Avenue, participated in the burglary together. Electronic games and other items were taken in the break-in while the resident hid in a closet and called police on a cell phone.

Jones, however, never crossed the threshold of the apartment, said J. Michael Thompson, an assistant county prosecutor. Jones was allowed to plead guilty to a fourth-degree burglary charge.

Judge Krichbaum sentenced Jones today to two years’ probation and ordered him to undergo an in-house treatment program at Community Corrections Association on Market Street.