LeeVaughn Toney enters guilty plea to burglary charge

YOUNGSTOWN — The father of a man accused in a high-profile murder in the city could spend up to 18 months behind bars for burglarizing a relative’s home.

LeeVaughn Toney, 51, of Winona Drive, appeared today before Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court. Toney entered into a plea agreement with prosecutors that would reduce his prison time on the burglary charge. He pleaded guilty to a fourth-degree felony.

Toney could be sentenced up to 18 months in prison. He originally was indicted on a second-degree felony burglary charge, which carries a maximum eight-year prison term.

His son, Aubrey Toney, 29, is charged in the murder Thomas Repchic and the wounding of Repchic’s wife, Jacqueline, on the city’s South Side in September.

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