Trumbull County man could get prison for probation violation

WARREN — When Jason Kirkpatrick stands before Judge John M. Stuard of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court on Nov. 20 for a probation-violation hearing, there will probably be a few more people in the room than the last time he was there.

Kirkpatrick, who accepted the judge’s offer in September to attend Life Challenge, a faith-based substance abuse treatment facility in Detroit and was later dismissed from the program, now faces a possible nine-year prison sentence.

That’s the sentence Judge Stuard promised to give Kirkpatrick if the 29-year-old Trumbull County resident was unable to succeed at Life Challenge.

But Jeff Hoolihan, a Warren detective who participated in a three-county task force that rooted out Kirkpatrick, two fellow burglars and 15 others in two different burglary cells operating in Trumbull, Mahoning and Columbiana counties, says he will ask victims and investigators to attend Kirkpatrick’s next hearing to make their wishes clear: Kirkpatrick should go to prison.

For the complete story, see Wednesday’s Vindicator and Vindy.com.