Youngstown man pleads guilty to reduced charge in dog-bite case

YOUNGSTOWN — The city man charged with a felony after his dog attacked a 10-year-old child walking to school has signed a plea agreement that could likely land him on probation instead of behind bars.

Dustin Anglin, 22, of South Heights Avenue, faced a felony charge of not properly confining or restraining a vicious dog that has caused physical harm. He was scheduled for a pretrial hearing today before Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, but he entered into the plea agreement reducing the felony to a misdemeanor charge of failure to confine or restrain a dog.

Atty. Jim Melone, representing Anglin, said Anglin will be sentenced Feb. 3, on the charge.

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