'I despise you' Judge Krichbaum tells defendant

YOUNGSTOWN

Judge R. Scott Krichbaum is no longer sympathetic toward an Austintown man who violated his probation for a second time — sentencing him to 41⁄2 years in prison.

“I despise you,” the judge told Charles Etto in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court on Thursday.

The occasion was a revocation hearing after the court found probable cause that Etto violated probation for failing to report immediately back to the Mahoning County jail upon the cancellation of a mandatory doctor’s appointment. Upon his return, Etto tested positive for opiates and had tobacco on him.

Judge Krichbaum had granted Etto’s motion for the furlough so that he could attend a medical exam Feb. 17 through the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation.

“I was reaching out to this guy, and he spit in my face,” the judge said.

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