Sentencing hearing set for former mayoral candidate

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

A sentencing hearing has been set for a candidate in last year’s mayoral election who pleaded no contest to three misdemeanor counts of aggravated menacing.

John Crea, 47, will be sentenced by Judge Robert Milich on Sept. 29 in municipal court.

After he entered his no-contest pleas in April, he was found guilty by Judge Milich, who set the date Friday after a status hearing in Crea’s case.

The aggravated-menacing charges stem from an incident at his East Midlothian Boulevard apartment last October, where he was accused of threatening three people. Reports said he threatened to kill one of them. When police showed up at his apartment, he already had gone.

The day before that, he disrupted a church service by hitting the wall and himself in the head, forcing the service to end early.

Before that, he had served several days in jail after he was accused of threatening a security worker at city hall.

He was ordered by Judge Milich to undergo a mental- health evaluation.

At a hearing in May, Crea said he was living at the Doris Burdman home and receiving counseling services.

He will continue staying at the Doris Burdman home until his sentencing, it was ruled Friday.