City man guilty of aggravated robbery
Staff report
YOUNGSTOWN
A seven-man, five-woman jury deliberated six hours before convicting a South Truesdale Avenue man on two counts of aggravated robbery with a firearm specification at the end of a four-day trial.
The verdict came Thursday in the case of Jermaine Watson, who was on trial in the courtroom of Judge John M. Durkin of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.
Two Cleveland men said Watson, whose 32nd birthday was Thursday, robbed them at gunpoint inside a van last September.
The Clevelanders said they went to a woman’s East Side home in Youngstown, seeking to buy a car.
Watson got into a van with them, and that woman and another woman got out near Overland Avenue and Cleveland Street. Watson then pointed a gun at both men and demanded money, the men said.
One of the men handed over $150 before Watson ordered both victims out of the van.
Youngstown police later arrested Watson on Ayers Street.
Watson could get between six and 23 years in prison when he is sentenced at a later date.