Four face federal charges for November bank robbery in Lordstown

YOUNGSTOWN — Four Trumbull County people have been charged in the Nov. 19 crime spree that started with three failed carjackings in Austintown, Lake Milton and Bazetta and ended in a Lordstown bank robbery and suicide for a fifth person involved.

For all their lawlessness, the total in cash and property they secured that day was $4,047. The possible penalty each of the surviving members could get is between 15 and 25 years in federal prison.

Reginald Cherry, 23, of Delaware Avenue, Warren; Ro’Ceme Jethrow, 28, of state Route 46 in Cortland; and Shontell Williams, 23, of Belmont Avenue Northwest in Warren; all have been charged in federal court with armed bank robbery, which carries a possible penalty of 25 years in prison.

Natasa Weekley, 29, of Warren, has been charged in the same court with attempted robbery of a motor vehicle, which carries a possible penalty of 15 years in prison.

An affidavit filed in the case says Cherry, Jethrow, Weekley and the dead man, Donnell Weekley, 25, of Hall Avenue Northwest, Warren, committed their first illegal act at 11:30 a.m., when they attempted to take a car from a female in the parking lot of Aldi’s, 5863 Mahoning Ave., Austintown.

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