Back to jail for man who got county settlement

YOUNGSTOWN — A man who received a lawsuit settlement from Mahoning County after having been twice beaten by county sheriff’s deputies while he was a jail inmate is going back to state prison to finish the 11 months remaining in his manslaughter and felonious assault sentence.

On Friday, Judge Maureen A. Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court revoked Tawhon Easterly’s parole and sent him back to the penitentiary.

The Ohio Adult Parole Authority said Easterly, 29, violated terms of his parole on Jan. 9 by having access to a firearm, gun magazines, ammunition and drug paraphernalia police said they found in his Manhattan Avenue residence and failing to report his contact with police that day to his parole officer.

Easterly arrived home while police, who had arrested his brother, Frederick, who also resides there, and searched the residence, were still present, said Robert Andrews, assistant county prosecutor. Whether Tawhon Easterly owned the gun and drug paraphernalia or not, it was a parole violation for him to reside in a home where these items were present, Andrews said.

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