North Side yard worker charged in another burglary

YOUNGSTOWN

City police say the recent arrest of one man will mean residents on the North Side can breath a sigh of relief and hold onto their personal possessions a while longer.

Walter Kornegay, 25, is familiar to Youngstown police with a criminal record that could well be longer than his 5-feet-7-inch stature.

Kornegay, of Catalina Avenue on the city’s North Side, is in Mahoning County jail waiting for his June 6 trial on charges of burglarizing a North Side home in March this year. He already has served time in prison for burglary charges.

A check of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court shows that Kornegay has faced felony charges for possession of drugs, domestic violence, theft, receiving stolen property and burglary. His first run-in with police as an adult came in 2004 for domestic violence and endangering children when he was 18.

On April 1, 2010, police accused Kornegay of stealing an air compressor from the unlocked garage of a man he had done yard work for the previous fall in the 400 block of Bradley Avenue. That theft was followed by a burglary in the 2300 block of Selma Avenue the next day.

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