Defendant to stay in Trumbull jail until trial on DUI charge

WARREN — Judge Andrew Logan of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court said Keith Urso will remain in the county jail while awaiting trial on his 15th drunken-driving charge.

Urso, 49, of Warren, faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted of the charge. He returns to court Tuesday morning for his first pre-trial hearing.

County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins said he believes Judge Logan’s decision today is the first in Ohio in which a judge used a law enacted Jan. 1, 1998, to deny bond to a repeat drunken-driving offender.

Watkins urged the judge to take the unusual step in two court filings over the past week.

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