Five years in prison for deadly crash

YOUNGSTOWN — A Liberty man has been sentenced to five years in prison after he pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated vehicular homicide and one count of aggravated vehicular assault in a July 8, 2004, accident on Glenwood Avenue.

Johnny Mitchell, 37, of Green Acres Drive, drew the sentence Tuesday from Judge Maureen A. Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court after Robert Andrews, assistant county prosecutor, recommended five years of incarceration.

The aggravated vehicular homicide counts pertain to Latay Pugh, 12, and Latasha Harper, who died in the single-vehicle accident. The aggravated vehicular assault count pertains to Yazmeen Green, 4, who was injured but survived. All were passengers in the southbound car Mitchell was driving, which left the pavement and hit a tree near Kenmore Avenue.

For more, see Wednesday’s Vindicator and Vindy.com