Youngstown woman gets prison term for New Year's Day altercation at South Side bar

YOUNGSTOWN — A 27-year-old city woman will spend time in prison for a New Year’s Day altercation involving a gun at a South Side bar and restaurant.

Amber Grimm, 27, of Madison Avenue, appeared for sentencing today before Judge Maureen A. Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.

Grimm initially had been charged with two counts of aggravated burglary, but entered into a plea agreement with prosecutors in March where she pleaded guilty to only one count of aggravated burglary with a gun specification.

In the plea agreement, Robert J. Andrews, an assistant county prosecutor, reduced the firearm specification from three years to one year and recommended Grimm serve a three-year prison term for the aggravated burglary. The sentences will be served consecutively.

Judge Sweeney imposed the agreed upon four-year sentence.

Grimm will be given credit for the 124 days she has spent in the county jail while the case worked its way through the legal system.

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