Warren man pleads guilty to gun charge

The defendant was free on bond from the first incident when he was implicated in a Howland homicide.

STAFF REPORT

WARREN — A city man linked by police to the death of a 21-year-old Warren man Dec. 23 inside a Howland condominium complex has pleaded guilty to charges that he and another man fired a gun at a van in the southwest area of the city in September.

Michael Ahladis, 23, of Jefferson Street Southwest, pleaded guilty Monday in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court to a felony of carrying a concealed weapon and a misdemeanor of failure to comply with the order or signal of a police officer.

Judge Peter Kontos ordered the Trumbull County Adult Parole Authority to conduct a presentence investigation on Ahladis before the judge sentences him in four to six weeks.

Ahladis could receive up to 18 months in prison on the charge of carrying concealed weapons and up to six months on the failure-to-comply charge.

The two charges stem from an incident Sept. 21 at Oriole Place and Tod Avenue Southwest, where a police officer heard 15 to 20 shots fired at about 7 p.m.

Citizens reported the shots came from a green Ford F-150 pickup truck whose occupants were firing at a tan-colored van.

Officers located a truck matching the description on Highland Avenue at Third Street. The truck didn’t stop when an officer attempted to pull it over.

Another officer stopped his cruiser just north of the intersection, got out of his cruiser and pointed his service revolver at the two men in the truck, yelling “Stop the car.” The vehicle stopped.

Other officers converged and took the two men into custody. Ahladis was one of the two men. Police recovered two handguns inside the vehicle.

The other man in the car also was charged with carrying a concealed weapon and later bound over to a Trumbull County grand jury on the charge.

Ahladis, who has had 10 criminal cases in Warren Municipal Court since 2004, was free on bond from the incident in the pickup truck when he was charged in late December with complicity to aggravated burglary and obstruction of justice in connection with the death of Cameron Murray.

Murray was found dead by a construction worker in the doorway of his condominium on North Sandpiper Court in Howland on Dec. 23. Police say Murray had been shot there in the doorway at about 4 p.m. that day.

Howland Police Chief Paul Monroe said Ahladis and others may also face additional charges in Murray’s death as soon as the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation completes the analysis of evidence found at the scene of Murray’s death.

Delshawn R. Scrivens, 25, of Wood Street Southwest in Warren, died last month in St. Joseph Health Center from injuries he suffered Dec. 23.

He was one of two men who were taken to area hospitals the same day Murray was killed. Monroe said Scrivens’ death is related to Murray’s, but he won’t say how until the scientific evidence is obtained.