Woman pleads innocent to vehicular homicide

Investigators identified possible witnesses by reviewing a videotape of the accident scene.

STAFF REPORT

WARREN — A former city woman has pleaded innocent to aggravated vehicular homicide and other felony charges that accuse her of killing Delano Clark, 47, of Belle Street in a car-motorcycle accident in July.

Naloni Scrivens, 27, appeared Tuesday in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court on the charges. Judge Andrew Logan set bond at $100,000. She is scheduled to return to court at 9 a.m. Oct. 15 before Judge W. Wyatt McKay.

Scrivens lived on Jefferson Street Southwest at the time of the accident but was living elsewhere in northeast Ohio at the time of her arrest Tuesday by U.S. marshals. She secretly had been indicted last week by a Trumbull County grand jury.

Clark was riding his motorcycle north on Highland Avenue at about 10 p.m. July 3 when a car heading south on Highland turned left into his path at Fourth Street Southwest, struck him and left the scene.

Police had a description of the car but wanted better information about the driver and asked the public for help in the case, said Sgt. Larry Salvato, Warren Police Department traffic commissioner.

Eventually the department received better information about Scrivens from a witness.

Those who saw the incident did not come forward, Salvato said, but by using the videotape gathered from a cruiser, Warren Police Traffic Investigator Ben Harrell and Gary Hetzel of the county prosecutor’s office were able to identify people at the scene and interview them, Salvato said.

Clark died in Cleveland Metro Hospital nearly a month after the accident after having one leg amputated and undergoing numerous surgeries related to the accident.