Son found guilty of menacing father

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Jesse Ieropoli

Staff report

LISBON

Jesse Ieropoli, 20, has pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor count of aggravated menacing for threatening his father, Nick Ieropoli.

Columbiana County Municipal Court Judge Mark Frost found the younger Ieropoli guilty and sentenced him to 180 days in the county jail with credit for 21 days served after his arrest.

The defendant also will undergo a mental-health and substance-abuse evaluation at the jail by the Family Recovery Center, which deals with substance abuse.

The younger Ieropoli also had been charged with a domestic-violence charge, a fourth-degree misdemeanor. That charge was dropped.

Frost said he will review the misdemeanor case at 1 p.m. April 12 to determine whether the defendant will have to make any restitution

Columbiana County Prosecutor Robert Herron said Wednesday that an investigation is continuing into the death of Jesse’s mother, Sherry L. Ieropoli, 47.

She was pronounced dead at the family home Aug. 28, 2008. Investigators said that she had been shot twice with a .22-caliber semiautomatic rifle.

The Columbiana County Coroner’s Office ruled the death a homicide.