METRO DIGEST || Warren suspect arrested in Calif.

Suspect arrested

WARREN

A suspect in a June 25 shooting that injured a 23-year-old Union Street man has been arrested in a Los Angeles suburb by the U.S. Marshals Pacific Southwest Fugitive Task Force.

Julius McKinney, 22, previously of Dunstan Drive Northwest, was arrested Tuesday in San Gabriel, Calif. McKinney was located inside a residence and taken into custody without incident.

The arrest was made possible by information obtained by the U.S. Marshals Northern Ohio Fugitive Task Force with help from the Warren Police Department. Both agencies are part of the Violence Gun Reduction Interdiction Program (VGRIP) effort in Mahoning and Trumbull counties this summer.

McKinney will be kept in the Los Angeles County jail pending extradition to Ohio.

Gabriel G. Lofton Jr., 23, said McKinney shot him in the stomach at 3:09 a.m. June 25 during an argument at 805 W. Market St.

Pleads guilty

WARREN

William Santiago Jr., 20, of Blackburn Street, Campbell, is sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to four counts of burglary involving homes in Hubbard Township last year.

Santiago received the sentence Thursday in the courtroom of Judge John M. Stuard of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court.

Santiago also was sentenced to probation last year in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court for assaulting a man and his daughter during a brawl on East Glenaven Avenue in Youngstown.

Santiago’s indictment in the Trumbull County case says he burglarized houses on Hubbard-Bedford, Pothhour-Wheeler, Pound and South Fox North roads Nov. 17 and Nov. 19.

Morley steps down

YOUNGSTOWN

Michael Morley, former Mahoning County Democratic Party chairman, announced Thursday that he will resign from the Mahoning County Board of Elections on Sept. 16. Morley’s term was to expire in about six months.

Current party chairman David Betras has accepted Morley’s resignation. In his letter, Morley said he wants to give his replacement the opportunity to participate in an election this November before the 2012 presidential election. Morley said he will be spending more time in Manhattan but still will have an apartment in Youngstown.

The party’s executive committee will make a recommendation on a replacement Sept. 17. This name will be then forwarded to Secretary of State Jon Husted, who must give the final approval.

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