Gun-toting felon gets 10 years in federal prison

Staff report

AKRON

A Warren man is going to federal prison for 10 years for being a felon in possession of firearms and possession of body armor by a violent felon.

Michael L. Green Jr., 33, of Jackson Street Southwest, who had pleaded guilty to those charges in March, drew the sentence Tuesday from U.S. District Court Judge John R. Adams. Green will be on supervised release for five years after prison.

An Ohio State Highway Patrol officer assisting Warren police arrested Green on Oct. 28, 2013, outside a house on Kenwood Drive Southwest in the aftermath of two shooting deaths in Warren.

Police went to the house at 12:44 a.m., just after shots were fired at another nearby house, damaging the home’s interior but not injuring anyone.

Green was wearing body armor and toting a .40-caliber pistol with 16 rounds of ammunition and an assault rifle with a nearly full 100-round drum magazine, the indictment says.

The indictment says Green was carrying 97 rounds of assault-rifle ammunition.

The house involved belonged to Taemarr Walker, 24, who had died nine days earlier in a confrontation with a Warren police officer.

The arrest also came two days after Richard C. Rollison IV, 24, of Niles, was killed at a West Market Street gas station.

Taemarr Walker’s brother, TaShawn Walker, 26, was charged with aggravated murder in Rollison’s death and awaits a Dec. 8 jury trial before Judge Peter J. Kontos of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court.

The Green case was prosecuted by David M. Toepfer, the Youngstown-based assistant U.S. attorney.

Green has prior felony convictions in Trumbull County for burglary and assault on a peace officer.