Jury indicts man in LSP gang case

Jury indicts man in LSP gang case

CLEVELAND

A federal grand jury has indicted Marquise J. Wilkins, 23, of Youngstown on perjury and obstruction of justice charges for his testimony in the LSP gang conspiracy case, the U.S. attorney said.

Wilkins was charged with giving testimony in the June LSP gang trial that was inconsistent with his previous grand-jury testimony in the case.

The four Youngstown men convicted in that three-week jury trial in federal court will be sentenced in late September.

LSP stands for LaClede, Sherwood, Parkview and Princeton avenues in the Idora neighborhood on Youngstown’s South Side, where the gang was active between 2003 and 2011, the U.S. attorney said.

The gang used violence, including attempted murder, to control territory and sell heroin, cocaine and other drugs, federal prosecutors said.

Sentenced to prison

WARREN

Thomas A. Kohn, 43, of state Route 7, Kinsman, has been sentenced to four years in prison for seven counts of engaging in sexual conduct with a 13-year-old girl January through April 2011 and disseminating matter harmful to juveniles in December 2010.

Kohn on Monday agreed to the four-year prison term and avoided trial before Judge Peter Kontos.

Woman killed in traffic accident

LISBON

The Ohio State Highway Patrol Lisbon post said Miriam K. Yoder, 56, of Homeworth, was killed in a Monday traffic accident.

The patrol said Yoder was traveling south on Knox School Road in Knox Township at 8:53 a.m. and failed to stop at a stop sign on Georgetown Road and was hit by another car, whose driver was not injured.

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