Warren man pleads guilty in robbery

Staff report

WARREN

Trovon L. Bryant, 19, of Prospect Avenue Northwest, has pleaded guilty to reduced charges in an attempted armed robbery in the parking lot of the General Electric Ohio Lamp Plant on North Park Avenue last September.

Bryant pleaded guilty in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court to tampering with evidence. In exchange, prosecutors dropped charges of felonious assault and carrying a concealed weapon.

Judge Peter Kontos will sentence Bryant after the county Adult Probation Department conducts a presentence investigation.

A 57-year-old G.E. worker told police he was leaving the plant parking lot about 11:10 p.m. Sept. 17 when three young men wearing hoodies tried to block his way by standing in the exit.

One of the three shot at his car, the man said. No bulletholes were found in his car.

Nearly two hours later, officers caught the three on West Market Street near downtown with the help of a police dog.

Officers recovered a black bag that they saw Bryant throw over the West Market Street bridge containing an Intratech 9mm semiautomatic gun. The victim later identified Bryant as the person who fired the weapon.

Anthony Hill, 19, of Union Street Southwest, was charged with felonious assault, but a grand jury declined to indict him. A misdemeanor charge of obstructing official business filed against him in Warren Municipal Court was dropped.

The third man, Desmond Coker, 19, of Warren, pleaded guilty in Warren Municipal Court to obstructing official business last month and was sentenced to 17 days in the Trumbull County Jail and court costs of $215.