Man resentenced in 2011 murder

Man resentenced in 2011 murder

YOUNGSTOWN

A man was resentenced Tuesday by Judge Lou A. D’Apolito in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court for a Sept. 22, 2011, murder.

Donovan Miller, 29, was sentenced to 33 years to life for the murder of 22-year-old Quest Waggoner in his Inverness Avenue home on the South Side.

Miller was convicted in December 2012 and sentenced to 36 years to life, but he appealed his sentence to the 7th District Court of Appeals, which ruled he had to be resentenced because there was no explanation why one of the charges he was sentenced for — tampering with evidence — was made consecutive at the original sentencing.

At the resentencing, Judge D’Apolito made the tampering-with-evidence conviction concurrent instead of consecutive. Miller was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison on the murder and an additional three years on a firearm specification. With the tampering charge running concurrently, that makes his sentence 33 years to life.

Petitti’s to replace trees at garden

YOUNGSTOWN

Petitti Garden Center in Boardman will donate 29 fruit trees to the Food Forest, an urban garden on Youngstown’s South Side that was vandalized this week.

R. Mason Carratt, founder of the Food Forest at the corner of Hillman Street and Auburndale Avenue, said he appreciates the donation, and is hopeful volunteers will show up at 8 a.m. Saturday to help plant the trees, according to 21 WFMJ-TV, The Vindicator’s broadcast partner.

Early Monday, Carratt discovered 29 of the 50 small fruit trees planted there had been cut down with what appears to be pruning shears. Volunteers are working to save as many of the damaged trees as possible.

Produce grown at the Food Forest and at the neighboring Youngstown Inner City Garden, is given to the needy, free of charge.

Worker injured in explosion

LIBERTY

A worker at Cleveland Auto Wrecking on Hubbard-Liberty Road was injured when an oxygen tank he was cutting with a blowtorch exploded, the Liberty Fire Department reported.

The man, in his mid-30s, injured his arm in the accident at 10:53 a.m. Tuesday. He was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center.

The fire department did not have the man’s name and address and could give no other details, citing privacy laws.

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