Youngstown man gets 7-year prison term for South Side home invasion

YOUNGSTOWN — A 26-year-old Ford Avenue man is going to prison for seven years for an armed March 1 home invasion on the city’s South Side, which had three victims.

Steve Gardner drew the sentence today from Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court after he pleaded guilty to aggravated robbery with a gun specification and being a felon with a gun.

The sentence is nonappealable because it was agreed upon by the prosecution and defense and adopted by the judge.

The prosecution dropped charges of aggravated burglary and improperly discharging a gun into a house and repeat violent-offender specifications.

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