City man gets probation, judicial warning

YOUNGSTOWN — Even the prosecuting attorney admitted that a man being sentenced for two drug-trafficking charges today had some positive things going for him.

Judge Lou D’Apolito of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court agreed with that as well, but he added just before he gave 27-year-old Bert Pritchard of Gluck Street five years’ probation that if he violated his probation, he would have only one thing going for him — a trip to prison.

Pritchard pleaded guilty June 13 to a charge of trafficking in marijuana, a fifth-degree felony and trafficking in heroin, a third-degree felony. He was arraigned on the charges Jan. 28.

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