Woman sentenced for falsification

YOUNGSTOWN

A woman has been sentenced to one year of probation for falsification, while her husband awaits sentencing for involuntary manslaughter.

Megan Miller, 37, of Hazelwood Avenue, who had pleaded guilty to falsification last fall, drew the sentence Thursday from Judge Maureen A. Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court. A $1,000 fine and a 180-day jail term were suspended.

Miller’s husband, Randall, 38, pleaded guilty last fall to a reduced charge of involuntary manslaughter in the Sept. 27, 2013, shooting death of Frank James Brown, 36, on South Truesdale Avenue.

Under his plea deal, Randall Miller, who still awaits sentencing, must cooperate with investigators against others, who may have been involved in the slaying.

Randall Miller was initially charged with murder.

Police said Brown was shot inside a car owned by Megan Miller, who was then a city finance department cashier.

When Brown’s body was found, he was lying amid shards of broken glass in the street.

Megan Miller told police the car had not recently been cleaned, but, when they served a search warrant at her home, they found a window had been replaced and efforts had been made to clean the car.

Investigators found shattered window glass fragments and blood in the car and on its running board, along with glass fragments on the Millers’ garage floor and in the garage drain, police said.