43
Two plead guilty in burglary case
YOUNGSTOWN
Two people involved in a burglary reminiscent of the children’s story “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” have entered a plea agreement that may place them on probation for an undetermined time.
Tyrone Gregory, 32, of West LaClede Avenue, and Rafaelle Daye, 38, of North Evanston Avenue, pleaded guilty earlier this week to a fourth-degree felony burglary charge before Judge Lou D’Apolito of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.
The pair originally had been indicted on a charge of second-degree burglary, but that charge was amended in exchange for their guilty pleas.
The second-degree felony charge could have carried a prison term of anywhere between two and eight years. The fourth-degree felony charge could carry a prison term of anywhere from six to 18 months.
Prosecutors, in light of the plea agreement, have agreed to recommend probation.
Judge D’Apolito will sentence Daye and Gregory at a later date. He is not obligated to follow the recommendations set forth by prosecutors in the plea agreement, however.
City police were sent to a home in the 2000 block of Summer Street in early September after a 27-year-old woman realized someone entered her home by a front window that had been shattered.
The resident found her South Side home ransacked with personal belongings thrown everywhere, but what she found in a second-floor bedroom was most shocking.
The woman told officers she walked into the bedroom and found Daye and Gregory sleeping in her bed.
The woman called 911 and screamed at the two intruders, “What are you doing in my house?” Reports say Daye and Gregory awoke and simply walked out the front door.
Police arrested the pair less than a block away from the house.