Metro Digest || Man sentenced for rape

Sentenced for rape

WARREN

Paul R. Miller, 41, of North Park Extension, North Bloomfield, has been sentenced to life in prison for raping a girl over the past four years.

Miller pleaded guilty this week in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court to five counts of rape and two counts of gross sexual imposition. Three of the rape charges carry a penalty of 10 years to life in prison.

In addition to the life sentences, Miller was given nine years each on two other rape charges and 17 months on each of two gross-sexual-imposition charges. All of the sentences will run concurrently.

Prosecutors said the victim was 12 when the offenses began.

On probation

WARREN

A former corrections officer at Trumbull Correctional Institute in Warren has been sentenced to three years’ probation and 30 days in the Summit County jail for groping a female inmate in 2008.

Howard J. Washington, 49, of Akron pleaded guilty to gross sexual imposition in November in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court. He will report voluntarily to the jail later and will be classified as a sex offender.

Judge John M. Stuard sentenced Washington on Thursday. Mike Burnett, an assistant county prosecutor, said Washington was fired from his job after the incident. Washington was working in the area of the prison that houses female inmates at the time.

Drug charges

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Timothy Duffy, 34, of the 100 block of Crumlin Avenue, Girard, will appear Tuesday in Girard Municipal Court on charges of possession of dangerous drugs, driving under the influence and endangering children.

He was cited after police responded to a call about a car in a ditch about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday on Tibbetts-Wick Road near Naylor-Lloyd Road. There were three children, age 4, 6 and 9, in the car; they were not injured. Police found 12 Vicodin tablets on Duffy.

Robbery attempts

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A would-be robber tried three times at Arby’s on Ellwood Road but left without stealing anything Wednesday night.

Shenango Township police said a man in a dark hooded sweatshirt with a bandanna over his face walked into the restaurant around 9:30 p.m.

He approached two 15-year-old girls, told them he was a robber and wanted all their money. He didn’t get any money from them, so he approached a woman sitting in the next booth and tried to steal her purse, police said. She screamed and fought back.

He went to another woman in another booth and tried to steal her purse, but could not, police said. The woman’s 12-year-old son came to her defense.

The man left the restaurant and was last seen walking toward the back of it.