Hearing, trial delayed in Ponzi-scheme case

Hearing, trial delayed in Ponzi-scheme case

CLEVELAND

The hearing next week and jury trial Oct. 22 in U.S. District Court here for Keelan Harris of Warren, charged in a Ponzi scheme that sent his brother to prison, have been moved back.

The new dates are 2 p.m. Dec. 9 for the final pretrial and 9 a.m. Dec. 16 for his trial.

His attorney, J. Gerald Ingram, requested the delay because of the volume of material to review in the case being heard by Judge Christopher A Boyko.

Harris, 37, remains in federal custody on the charges — eight counts of wire fraud and four counts of money laundering. His brother, Kevin, is serving a seven-year federal prison term.

Youngstown suspect in shooting arraigned

YOUNGSTOWN

A city man is in Mahoning County jail on $75,000 bond after his arraignment Wednesday in Youngstown Municipal Court on a charge of felonious assault in a Sept. 28 shooting on Griffith Street.

Rashad Riggins, 32, is accused of shooting Damien Patterson, 35, in the stomach outside a Griffith Street apartment on the North Side.

Riggins was picked up on the warrant about 3:30 a.m. Wednesday on state Route 11 in Columbiana County, an arrest report said.

Man arrested in case tied to fatal accident

YOUNGSTOWN

Michael J. Johnson Jr., wanted on a warrant for failing to appear at his arraignment after his indictment on charges he left the scene of an accident that killed a man, was arrested Wednesday afternoon.

Members of the U.S. Marshals Service arrested Johnson, 24, at a home on Rosewood Avenue, said Lt. William Ross, head of the police department’s traffic bureau.

A Mahoning County grand jury indicted Johnson in July on a charge of failure to stop after the Feb. 2 accident on West Hylda Avenue on the South Side that killed 23-year-old Robert Brown of Youngstown. Reports said Brown was killed as he was leaving a bar on Hylda and walking to his car when he was hit by a car going at a high speed that did not stop.

Johnson, however, failed to attend his arraignment in August in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court. He is in the county jail.

Historical society honors 2 buildings

COLUMBUS

The Ohio Historical Society’s Preservation Office honored Erie Terminal Place in Youngstown and the 1868 Market Block Building in Warren with preservation merit awards.

The two buildings were among 16 the office honored.

Erie Terminal Place, a former passenger-train depot and office building at 112 W. Commerce St., was converted into an apartment complex.

The Market Block Building, 147 W. Market St. on Warren’s Courthouse Square is a former store and office space converted into headquarters of the Raymond John Wean Foundation.