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Two Warren men indicted on child-pornography charges
By Ed Runyan
WARREN
Two Warren men arrested on child-pornography charges in March at their apartments in Northbury Colony off of Reeves Road were indicted Wednesday in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court.
Robert E. Sillitoe Jr., 57, was indicted on five counts of pandering sexually oriented matter involving a minor and two counts of pandering obscenity involving a minor.
If convicted, he could be sentenced to more than 30 years in prison.
Timothy W. Harris, 26, was indicted on 15 counts of pandering sexually oriented matter involving a minor.
If convicted, he could get even more prison time than Sillitoe.
The charges allege both men were downloading child pornography from the Internet and copying or sharing the files. Both men were arrested the same day, but their cases are not otherwise linked, police said.
Also indicted was Daniel A. Persing, 52, of Garland Drive in Mineral Ridge, charged by Weathersfield police with two counts of felonious assault.
Police said Persing fired a weapon several times at Weathersfield police officers when they went to his home for a 911 call in late February.
If convicted, he could get about 20 years in prison.
Venita McCall, 31, of Cleveland, was indicted on one count of felonious assault.
The charges stem from a call to a house on Ogden Avenue Northwest in December for a disturbance in which police found a 5-year-old boy with a severe cut and a 29-year-old woman with a “major injury.”
Anisha Hadden, 21, of Parkman Road Northwest, Warren, was indicted on one count of robbery connected to a Jan. 27 incident at Macy’s in Eastwood Mall.
Niles police said Hadden and a 17-year-old female were stopped by store security after they were identified as suspects in the theft of clothing.
One of the females reportedly told the other to shoot the security officers. The second suspect reached in her purse as if to get a firearm, then told the officers to get out of the way or they would be shot.
McCall and Hadden could get up to eight years in prison if convicted.
Marshall Finch, 50, of Athens Drive Southeast in Howland, was indicted on one count of cocaine trafficking, three counts of heroin trafficking and one count of heroin possession.
Finch was charged by the Trumbull Ashtabula Group Law Enforcement Task Force during a raid on his home in February after a two-month investigation.