Rapp enters plea on charges
Rapp
Staff report
YOUNGSTOWN
Prosecutors are recommending a four-year prison term for the former Canfield Dairy Queen owner, who has pleaded no contest to drug and sexual-material pandering charges.
Trent P. Rapp, 44, of Market Street, Beaver Township, entered his plea Monday before Judge Maureen A. Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, who will sentence him at a later date.
Rapp pleaded no contest to marijuana trafficking, cocaine possession, corrupting another with drugs, possessing criminal tools, illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material, and two counts of pandering sexually oriented material.
In the plea deal, the prosecution agreed to drop seven other counts of illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material, two counts of pandering sexually oriented matter and one count of furnishing a false identification card or driver’s license.
If he were to get maximum consecutive sentences, Rapp could go to prison for up to 81/2 years and be fined up to $25,000.
Although they arrested Rapp at the DQ on July 23, 2009, police said all the crimes occurred at Rapp’s residence and that the DQ played no role in the offenses.
The drugs and computer images of child pornography were found when police executed a search warrant Jan. 16, 2009, at Rapp’s home.
Rapp remains free on his own recognizance pending sentencing.