Early release

Early release

YOUNGSTOWN

The owner of a former Boardman restaurant who was sentenced to prison in June for having the restaurant burned down for insurance money was granted an early release from prison Monday because of health problems.

Visiting Judge Thomas Pokorny granted the motion filed by Rajendra Ingle, 42, of Streetsboro, in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.

Ingle was sentenced to a year in prison after he pleaded no contest and was found guilty of charges of arson and insurance fraud for an Oct. 18, 2013, fire at the Spice of India restaurant on Market Street.

Ingle was suffering from diabetes and high blood pressure and those problems were made worse in prison, his attorney said when asking for his release.

The judge said Ingle must get a job and begin making monthly payments on restitution of $190,000.

No foul play

WARREN

City police do not suspect foul play in the death of a woman, 28, found unresponsive Sunday evening at a house on Bonnie Brae Avenue Northeast and later pronounced dead.

Her death may have been an accident, police said.

Police were called to a house in the 1500 block of Bonnie Brae at 6:48 p.m. for an unresponsive female “hanging out of a house window.”

Police and ambulance personnel tried to revive the woman, but she died.

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