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4 sentenced to prison terms by Trumbull judge
By Ed Runyan
WARREN
Judge W. Wyatt McKay of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court sentenced four people Wednesday to prison terms of three years or more.
Carl J. Hassenplug, 55, of Ridgelawn Avenue Southeast, was sentenced to five years in prison and a 10-year license suspension for driving his car into a couple on a motorcycle, then leaving the scene.
Hassenplug pleaded guilty earlier to aggravated vehicular assault and failure to stop after the accident, which happened on East Market Street near North Road on May 14, 2010.
Police said Hassenplug failed to yield on a left turn into a private drive, hitting Lloyd and Julie Ware of Olian Avenue and injuring both.
Antonio Vintson, 35, of Lansdowne Boulevard, Youngstown, was sentenced to four years in prison after being convicted of trying to steal a purse from a woman in front of the Huntington Bank branch on Belmont Avenue in Liberty on Feb. 12.
Police said Vintson was wearing a mask when he grabbed the purse from a 55-year-old Youngstown woman outside the branch. The woman held onto the purse, which contained a business deposit, and she was knocked to the concrete sidewalk.
Vintson got the bag away from the woman and fled on foot. Liberty Patrolman Pete DeAngelo saw the theft and followed Vintson in his cruiser. Capt. Steve Shimko assisted and wrestled Vintson to the ground. Vintson, who was carrying a pocket knife, tried to bite Shimko on the arm during the arrest.
Holly Moga, 25, of Trumbull Avenue, Girard, was sentenced to three years in prison for two March 27 break-ins at a residence on Warren-Sharon Road in Brookfield and for stealing jewelry from an 81-year-old Liberty woman at her Mansell Drive home May 19, 2010.
Police said Moga took money and checkbooks from the Brookfield residence and took $5,685 worth of jewelry from the elderly woman’s home while there doing yardwork.
Christopher M. Wilcher, 33, of Bishop Road, Leavittsburg, was sentenced to three years in prison for being part of a Lordstown theft ring Aug. 5, 2008, through Sept. 7, 2008.
Lordstown police said the crimes involved taking guns and tools, especially tools used for working on cars. The items were taken from three homes and two unattached garages in the southwest part of the village and one in the northern part.
In January, Wilcher pleaded guilty to eight charges, including breaking and entering, burglary, receiving stolen property and being a felon in possession of a firearm.