Metro digest || Pipes fall off trailer, injuring man’s leg

Pipes fall off trailer, injuring man’s leg

STRUTHERS

A man was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center Tuesday after a load of pipes he was securing onto a flat-bed trailer fell on his leg.

Tom Sinkovich, 35, of Forest Park Drive in Youngstown, was at Lally Pipe and Tube on Lowellville Road when the accident happened around 1 p.m., the Struthers Fire Department said.

The hospital said it had no information on Sinkovich on Tuesday evening.

The fire department said four pipes, each 65 feet long and weighing 6,500 pounds apiece, fell off the trailer.

Warren man facing 34th DUS charge

YOUNGSTOWN

A man charged with his 34th driving-under-suspension charge will be back in court Feb. 10.

Vincent Poole, 46, of Southwest Boulevard, Warren, appeared before Judge Elizabeth Kobly of Youngstown Municipal Court on Monday.

He was arrested at Glenwood and Kenmore avenues Nov. 23 while police were conducting a DUS checkpoint. Police at the checkpoint determined that Poole was under 34 open suspensions.

Board meeting

YOUNGSTOWN

Legacy Academy for Leaders & the Arts will have its board meeting at 6:45 p.m. today at 1812 Oak Hill Ave. Legacy is a charter school that serves students in kindergarten through eighth grade.

Polivka appointed head commissioner

WARREN

Dan Polivka will serve as president of the Trumbull County commissioners for 2011. He was appointed president when the commissioners reorganized Monday.

Polivka has been a commissioner since 2004, when the Trumbull County Democratic Party appointed him to fill the remaining term of Michael O’Brien after O’Brien stepped down to become Warren’s mayor.

Polivka was elected to his first four-year term as commissioner in November 2004 and was re-elected in 2008. He is chairman of the county Democratic Party and was a Warren councilman 19 years.

Man pleads guilty to four felonies

WARREN

Ralph Underwood, 20, of Maryland Street Northwest, has pleaded guilty to four felony charges in a Jan. 20, 2009, break-in of an occupied house on Tod Avenue Northwest.

Underwood could be sentenced to as much as 40 years in prison on the charges — including aggravated burglary, aggravated robbery, kidnapping and felonious assault — after the Trumbull County Adult Probation conducts a presentence investigation.

Underwood entered his plea Monday in the courtroom of Judge Peter Kontos of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court.

An accomplice, DeVincent C. Lowery, 19, of Peerless Avenue Southwest, was sentenced in May to nine years in prison for his role in the crime.

Police said Underwood and Lowery took jewelry from the home of an elderly woman.