Canfield internist evades 100-plus years in prison with plea today

YOUNGSTOWN

A medical doctor who was indicted nearly five years ago on 86 drug-related felony counts pertaining to controlled substances has pleaded guilty to two drug-possession counts.

Those charges were reduced to first-degree misdemeanors. Dr. Waleed Mansour also was fined $2,000 and given two suspended six-month jail terms.

All other counts were dismissed in the plea agreement.

Dr. Mansour, 46, of Canfield, entered his plea Wednesday before Judge Shirley J. Christian of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.

Had he been convicted of all counts in the indictment, he could have faced up to 136 years in prison.

Dr. Mansour is an internal-medicine specialist, who formerly worked at St. Elizabeth Health Center in Youngstown.