Grand jury gets case

Grand jury gets case

WARREN

The criminal case against Honey D. Woodgett Price, 41, a former family liaison at the Warren City Schools’ Lincoln K-8 building, has been bound over to a Trumbull County grand jury after a hearing Thursday in Warren Municipal Court.

The school district fired Price, of Perkinswood Boulevard Northeast, on Jan. 31 after her Jan. 16 arrest for purportedly brandishing a firearm in the parking lot of the Giant Eagle on Elm Road Northeast.

Price remains free on $5,000 bond.

Price filed a lawsuit against the school district Tuesday seeking to get her job back on the grounds that the school district failed to conduct a proper hearing on the matter and didn’t have just cause to terminate her.

Couple indicted

WARREN

Angelo and Deanna Pizzurro of Portal Drive in Cortland, owners of Brothers Pizza, 144 S. High St. in Cortland, have pleaded innocent to felony workers’- compensation fraud. The couple were indicted on the fifth-degree felony charge Wednesday in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court.

The charges allege the couple individually and as owners of the restaurant failed to secure or maintain workers’-compensation coverage as required by Ohio law from January 2007 through June 2012. The value of the premiums and assessments not paid is about $6,000.

Angelo, 54, and Deanna, 47, were released Wednesday after signing for a $2,500 personal recognizance bond, meaning they didn’t have to pay anything. If convicted, each could get up to 12 months in prison.

Block-watch meeting

YOUNGSTOWN

The Youngstown Police Department will host a Block Watch Presidents meeting at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Covelli Centre.

Representatives from Youngstown Police, FBI, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, city council and other groups will be at the meeting. Topics will include coordination of block-watch support, property-crime prevention and statistics and gang identification.

3-year sentence

WARREN

Jenalynne Davidson, 27, of Millicent Avenue, Liberty, has been sentenced to three years in prison after being convicted of felonious assault and child endangering against a 5-year-old boy.

Judge Ronald Rice of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court handed down her sentence.

Davidson entered an Alford plea in October to the charge, meaning she maintained her innocence but pleaded guilty because there was sufficient evidence she would be found guilty if the case went to trial.

Davidson caused serious physical harm to the boy and tortured or cruelly abused him between Sept. 1 and Oct. 18, 2011, according to her indictment.

The boy was a family or household member, prosecutors said.