Warren man gets four years in prison for burglary

Staff report

WARREN

Darrell E. Sims, 43, of Sixth Street Southwest is going to prison for four years for participating in a burglary at a house on Garfield Drive Northeast in September.

Sims pleaded guilty Monday in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court before Judge Peter Kontos and agreed to the prison term. He also must make restitution of $1,000.

Warren police detectives Wayne Mackey and John Greaver were in their unmarked police car and in plainclothes when they noticed two men on foot, then saw them in the rear of a house in the 200 block of Garfield breaking into a house.

The suspects ran, but Greaver caught up to one of them, Michael F. Saldana, 18, of Taylor Avenue, Girard, and arrested him.

Neighbors helped police locate Sims, and he was arrested at Central Parkway and East Market Street.

They were accused of taking a box of coins worth $1,000 and jewelry from the home, a few blocks west of Trumbull Country Club.

Saldana pleaded guilty last month to the same charge and will be sentenced later.

Also in court Monday, Judge Kontos placed Patricia A. Grantz, 67, of Burnett Road, Leavittsburg, on two years’ probation after she pleaded guilty earlier to a misdemeanor count of child endangering for failing to protect a girl whom her husband, John C. Grantz, 67, repeatedly raped over seven years and another girl whom her husband molested.

John Grantz was sentenced to a life prison term in December. The judge ordered Patricia Grantz to have no contact with the victims unless the visits are supervised.