Youngstown man gets prison term for burglaries

YOUNGSTOWN — A 19-year-old city man told the court he stole to support his 11 siblings before the judge handed down a four-year prison term on three acts of burglary.

Freeman Bankston V, of West Ravenwood Avenue, appeared today before Judge John Durkin of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court for sentencing on three felony burglary charges. He had previously pleaded guilty to the charges.

Bankston is already serving a three-year federal prison sentence for illegal possession of a firearm.

Bankston could have been sentenced to as much as a combined 24 years in prison on the three felony-burglary charges.

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