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New assistant fire chiefs

WARREN — Two new assistant Warren fire chiefs were sworn in Wednesday at Warren City Hall.

They are Dan Suttles and Neil Heller. They were selected through their scores on a Civil Service test, in which Suttles scored highest and Heller was tied with Rick Yauger for second-highest score.

Heller got the promotion on the basis of having more seniority.

Mayor Michael O’Brien said Heller becomes the first black assistant chief in the department’s history.

Man wanted in sex assault

YOUNGSTOWN — Police are looking for the man believed to have sexually assaulted a 14-year-old Chaney High School student while she was headed to school.

According to reports, the girl told police and school officials she was walking to school at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday when a 40-year-old man she knows picked her up on Market Street, offering to take her to school. The girl said the man had his daughter in the car when he picked her up.

Police said the man dropped his daughter off at a school on the South Side, then drove the girl to a home on the West Side and sexually assaulted her in the driveway.

The girl was taken to Northside Medical Center, where a rape examination was conducted.

Sentenced in traffic death

WARREN — A 28-year-old woman was sentenced to four years in prison for causing the death of a motorcyclist by hitting him with her car and leaving the scene in July 2008.

Naloni P. Scrivens, who was living on Jefferson Street Southwest at the time of the accident, received the sentence Wednesday from Judge W. Wyatt McKay of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court.

Police said Scrivens was driving south on Highland Avenue and turned left into the path of Delano Clark, 47, of Belle Street, and left the scene. Clark died about a month later in the hospital.

In August, Scrivens pleaded guilty to aggravated-vehicular homicide, tampering with evidence and hit skip/failure to stop after an accident, all third-degree felonies. She could have gotten up to 15 years in prison.

Ex-attorney pleads guilty

WARREN — Former Warren attorney George N. Kafantaris has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of unauthorized use of property, for putting money from a client’s lawsuit settlement into his personal account in August 2002.

Kafantaris’ client died a month before Kafantaris settled the suit, but he didn’t tell anyone about the settlement until February 2004, when a family member approached him about it. By then, Kafantaris, 56, had used some of the $25,000, court documents say.

Judge W. Wyatt McKay will sentence Kafantaris after the county Adult Probation Department conducts a presentence investigation. He could get up to six months in prison.

In April, the Ohio Supreme Court disbarred Kafantaris, who maintained an office on North Park Avenue. The court disbarred Kafantaris for this issue, as well as misappropriating funds from another client and filing a false affadavit.

Chris Becker, an assistant county prosecutor, said he will ask that Kafantaris serve some type of incarceration. Kafantaris repaid the $25,000, Becker said.