Ex-Niles resident indicted in rash of burglaries

Staff report

WARREN

A former Niles resident has been indicted on four counts of burglary in break-ins he’s accused of committing in northern Trumbull County late last year.

Michael G. Farmer, 25, who formerly lived on Youll Street in Niles, will be arraigned at 1:30 p.m. Thursday in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court.

He is serving a one-year prison term in Southeastern Correctional Institute in Lancaster, Ohio, on convictions out of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court for carrying a concealed weapon and drug possession.

His Trumbull County indictment says he broke into buildings on Oakfield North Road in North Bloomfield on Dec. 2, Stroup-Hickox Road in West Farmington on Dec. 7, Gardner-Barclay Road in Farmdale on Dec. 8 and Durst-Colebrook Road in North Bloomfield on Dec. 10.

He’s also charged with one count of receiving stolen property Dec. 8.

If convicted, he could face more than 32 years in prison.

The Trumbull County Sheriff’s Department said the homeowner on Gardner-Barclay Road reported that she came home at 3 p.m. Dec. 8 to find 30 DVDs and a safe missing from her home. The safe contained credit cards and other items.

One credit card was used at about 4:45 p.m. that day at Speedway on Belmont Avenue in Liberty, and security cameras showed who used the credit card, a police report said.