Investigators of homicides in Trumbull get state recognition

Staff report

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Steve Schumaker, deputy Ohio attorney general, told the Trumbull County Homicide Investigation and Prosecution Unit that the attorney general’s office has assigned more personnel to analyze DNA and drugs.

This was done at several state crime labs to speed up completion of criminal cases, he said at the homicide unit’s annual dinner meeting this week.

The meeting featured awards given to investigators who worked on high-profile homicide cases in 2010. They were:

Lt. Gary Vingle, Detectives Mike Stabile and Wayne Mackey of the Warren Police Department for their investigation of the murders of Donte Broadus and Mocha Jones, both of Warren. Both were fatally shot in the upper torso on Colt Court Southwest in August 2009.

Michael L. McDonald, 26, of Warren, was sentenced to 18 years to life in prison in December 2010, after pleading guilty to two counts of murder and other charges related to the crime.

Detective Michael Begeot of the Hubbard Township Police Department for his investigation of the killing of Robert Flynn, 15, of Masury at a home on Stateline Road in Masury Aug. 9, 2009.

Karen Adams, 31, of Masury recently was sentenced to six years in prison for firing the fatal shot during a dispute involving youths who came to Adams’ house.

Trooper Kevin Brown of the Southington Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol for investigating a 2009 Leavittsburg car crash that killed two people.

David Eubank, 25, of Newton Falls was sent to prison for nine years for driving drunk and at a high rate of speed the night his car hit trees along North Leavitt Road. Two male passengers, both 25 years old, were killed.

The task force also gave the Service Award to agents Cliff Evans and Al Bansky for their work over the years as Warren police officers and agents with the Ohio Attorney General’s Office.