Local business owner pleads guilty to felony drug charge

LISBON — Peter M. Lynch, 53, co-owner of the downtown coffee shops, Friends Roastery in Salem and Friends Speciality in Youngstown, pleaded guilty as charged to drug possession at the third-degree felony level.

Lynch entered his plea Wednesday before Judge Scott A. Washam of Columbiana County Common Pleas Court, who will sentence him at 11:15 a.m. Oct. 16.

Lynch could be sentenced to probation or up to three years in prison and be fined up to $10,000, but his lawyer, C. Bruce Williams of Salem, said he considered his client, who has no prior criminal record, “a strong candidate for probation.”

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