Aide charged with abuse

The nursing home resident suffered bruised hands.

staff report

YOUNGSTOWN — The Mahoning County grand jury has indicted a 24-year-old fired nurse’s aide on a patient abuse charge.

On Thursday the grand jury indicted Lillian Talley of Canfield Road, who was arrested in January and accused of assaulting a 71-year-old female resident of Ron Joy Nursing Home in Boardman on Nov. 27, 2008.

The charge is a fourth-degree felony carrying a possible six to 18 months of incarceration upon conviction.

The resident told police Talley grabbed her by both hands, bruising her hands, pushed her backward several feet against a wall and left the room.

The resident, who speaks Spanish, told police she asked Talley to change her bed sheets and was waving her arms at Talley, trying to communicate what she wanted when the assault occurred.

After the resident made the allegation, the administrator fired Talley and reported the accusation to the state.

Others indicted were:

URandy Colello, 23, Leah Avenue, misdemeanor theft.

UJerald C. Essad II, 26, Southern Boulevard, Boardman, heroin possession.

URamon Cooper, 18, Manchester Avenue, aggravated robbery with a firearm specification.

UJames Benson, 29, Arkwright Avenue, burglary.

UJames Washington, 22, Saranac Avenue, aggravated cocaine trafficking.

UBrandon Treharn, 21, East Dewey Avenue, heroin possession.

ULeontre Floyd, 33, Akron, illegal gun possession, carrying concealed weapons and cocaine possession.

UDaniel Allen Jones, 25, West Lincoln Way, Lisbon, failure to register after a rape conviction.

UMathew Kuhn, 26, Garfield West, Niles, heroin possession.

UJesse C. Anderson, 42, West LaClede Avenue, failure to verify address.

UEric Carter, 50, South Raccoon Road, Austintown, cocaine possession.

UJoshua Snipes, 21, Redondo Road, improperly handling a gun in a motor vehicle.

UJohn M. Ferguson, 35, Mill Trace Road, two counts of domestic violence and three counts of violation of a protection order.

UBrandi J. Liggens, 20, Rosewood Lane, two counts of misuse of a credit card and two counts of receiving stolen property.

UMarcus Cobb, 44, Clearmount Drive, carrying concealed weapons and cocaine possession.

UTimothy E. Bellamy, 27, Shehy Street, cocaine possession and trafficking.

UCordero Edwards, 21, Northgate Avenue, improperly handling a gun in a motor vehicle.

UMichael W. Hoover Jr., also known as Michael Hover Jr., 18, New Road, Austintown, theft.

UNicholas Wibly Jr., 50, South Raccoon Road, Austintown, domestic violence.

The grand jury declined to indict Lasuasa Picket of Atkinson Avenue on a drug possession charge; Carlus Hall of Avondale Avenue on a charge of improperly handling a gun in a motor vehicle; and Christopher Shorter of Pasadena Avenue on charges of improper discharge of a gun into a habitation, illegal gun possession and tampering with evidence.