Probation violation

Probation violation

WARREN

One of the women who assisted murderer Jermaine McKinney of Youngstown in the hours after he killed two women in 2005 has been sentenced to 60 days in the Trumbull County jail for a probation violation.

Judge John M. Stuard of common pleas court also ordered Amy Corll, 34, of West Liberty Street in Hubbard, to serve an additional year on probation. Corll’s offense was failing to report to her probation officer for the past year.

Corll was placed on five years’ probation in November 2006 after she pleaded guilty to complicity to receiving stolen property for helping McKinney attempt to get money from the bank account of one of the dead women the night of the murders.

McKinney is serving a life sentence with no parole for killing Wanda Rollyson, 70, and her daughter, Rebecca Cliburn, 45, in Rollyson’s Newton Township home Dec. 21, 2005.

Assault reported

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A home-health-care aide told police she was assaulted by the brother of a client and then the family’s pit bull attacked her.

The victim, 46, told police the attacks happened the evening of Aug. 12. She was at the client’s home on Lowellville Road and had asked the client’s 15-year-old brother for help with the television remote control. He refused, got angry and threw himself onto her while she was seated in a chair, the police report says.

As she tried to stand, he punched her in the nose, the report says. Her glasses were knocked off, and she tried to retrieve them when the 15-year-old made a hissing sound. The pit bull then attacked her. She fought back and it stopped, but the same hissing sound caused the dog to attack again, she told police.

The client’s grandmother eventually came to her aid and caught the dog. The victim went to a hospital for treatment. Police are investigating.

Kids with weapons

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Police took four Samurai swords, a dagger and an ax blade from a Reed Avenue yard after a man complained kids were playing and fighting with them.

The man told police a neighbor’s children were in his yard with the weapons, and he was afraid they were going to hurt themselves.

The police report described the weapons as “very sharp.”

An officer went to speak to the mother of the neighbor kids, and she wasn’t home, the report said. The officer spoke to one girl and several other neighborhood kids who were on the porch with her, according to reports.

He told them to stay out of the neighbor’s yard.

Police did not say how old the children are, and they did not say where they got the weapons.

Menacing charges

GIRARD

A city man pleaded not guilty in Girard Municipal Court to charges of menacing, criminal trespassing and disorderly conduct.

Liberty police said 76-year-old Elmer Constantino, Forsythe Avenue, told a female employee at Giant Eagle that he is private investigator and made odd comments on weapons and the employee’s family. The alleged comments went on for a year, according to police.

When the store manager escorted Constantino out of the store, he threatened the manager.

A warrant was put out for Constantino’s arrest in June, and Girard police arrested him Tuesday.