Appellate court upholds search of man's home filled with bomb-making materials

YOUNGSTOWN — An appellate court has unanimously upheld the warrantless police entry into the South Side home of a former city man that led to his conviction for having bomb-making materials there.

“The warrantless entry into appellant’s home by police officers does not run afoul of the Fourth Amendment” to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures, ruled the judges of the 7th District Court of Appeals.

The ruling came Wednesday in the appeal of Randall Telshaw, 58, formerly of Ferndale Avenue, who a jury convicted of illegal possession of explosive-making chemicals. Judge John M. Durkin of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court sentenced him to two years’ probation.

The decision came exactly five years after police entered Telshaw’s residence June 29, 2006.

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