Judges uphold conviction

YOUNGSTOWN

A three-judge panel of the 7th District Court of Appeals has unanimously upheld the convictions and five-year prison sentence of a man who plastered his feces throughout the back of a police cruiser and threw it at deputy sheriffs.

Ronald Chappell, 26, of West Boston Avenue, drew the five maximum, consecutive, one-year prison terms from Judge James C. Evans of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court after a jury convicted him of four counts of harassment with a bodily substance and one count of vandalism of the police cruiser in which he had been detained.