Finalists forums

August 27, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Finalists forums

YOUNGSTOWN

The location of the Tuesday community forum for one of the finalists for the city schools’ superintendent post has been changed to the board room of the I.L. Ward Building, 20 W. Wood St., Youngstown.

The forums Monday and Wednesday will be at Choffin Career and Technical Center, 200 E. Wood St.

Each of the forums begins at 7:30 p.m.

Monday: Timothy Dortch, director of student services, Kent City School District.

Tuesday: Thomas Robey, superintendent, Campbell City School District.

Wednesday: Connie Hathorn, executive director of student support, Akron City School District.

Probation violation

WARREN

Imad M. Elsayed, convicted on two counts of gross sexual imposition for sexually assaulting two young women at Big Daddy’s Drive Thru in Howland in 2009, will spend nine more days in the Trumbull County jail for violating terms of his probation.

Elsayed, 45, of Deer Creek Court, Austintown, violated terms by selling cigarettes to minors and working alone at the drive-thru, said Mike Burnett, an assistant county prosecutor.

Judge John M. Stuard of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court sentenced Elsayed to 40 days in jail Thursday and gave him credit for 31 days he already has served. One of the terms of Elsayed’s probation was that he not work alone at the drive-thru, Burnett said. Judge Stuard sentenced Elsayed to two years’ probation in April.

In March 2009, Elsayed reached through the window of the car of a 19-year-old Cortland woman at the Niles-Cortland Road business and groped her, police said. In February 2009, Elsayed sexually assaulted a 19-year-old Vienna woman in the office of the business, police said.

License restriction

CLEVELAND (AP)

Ohio won’t issue driver licenses based on older birth certificates from Puerto Rico, even though the U.S. territory says they’re valid until Sept. 30.

The Bureau of Motor Vehicles says because of the risk of identity fraud, it’s accepting only Puerto Rican birth certificates printed since the beginning of this year, with new security features.

By the end of September, all Puerto Ricans born on the island are expected to have the new birth certificates. All those issued previously were voided as of July 1.

Agency spokeswoman Lindsay Komlanc says license bureaus will accept other documentation from Puerto Rican customers such as a Social Security card.

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