Child-rape case

Child-rape case

WARREN

Gary Kachenko, 56, of Phillips Drive Southwest told a Trumbull County judge he would be OK with “lethal injection,” meaning the death penalty as punishment after pleading guilty to raping a 13-year-old autistic boy multiple times.

He was advised that was not one of the possible penalties for his crimes.

Kachenko pleaded guilty Tuesday to eight counts of rape and four counts of gross sexual imposition involving the boy.

Judge Andrew Logan asked Kachenko to acknowledge that he had been offered a 25-year prison sentence by prosecutors, and Kachenko agreed.

Judge Logan noted that Kachenko could get as many as 95 years in prison when he is sentenced in about four weeks after the Adult Probation Department conducts a pre-sentence investigation.

Arrested after chase

YOUNGSTOWN

A city man was arrested on a warrant from Austintown on Tuesday after leading police Chief Robin Lees and several other officers on a chase about 4:40 p.m. on the South Side.

Reports said Lees was traveling west on Marshal Street when he saw a car driven by Joseph Ramos, 33, traveling the wrong way, and he pulled the car over. Reports said when Lees was checking to see the driving status of Ramos, Ramos drove away.

Lees and other officers chased Ramos through several South Side streets, and he was eventually caught on Oak Hill Avenue, reports said.

Ramos also was issued citations for running from police and was taken to the Mahoning County jail.

Arraigned in shooting

YOUNGSTOWN

Omar Robinson, 34, of West Dennick Avenue is in the Mahoning County jail on $40,000 bond after he was arraigned in municipal court Wednesday in the shooting of a woman at his home about 6:40 p.m. Saturday.

Reports said Robinson and the woman, 29, were arguing, and he shot her in the buttocks with a .22-caliber semiautomatic handgun, which was recovered in a clothes basket.

Robinson was arraigned before Magistrate Anthony Sertick on charges of felonious assault and child endangering. Reports said there were children in the home at the time the woman was shot. The woman was treated at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital.

Sentenced to prison

WARREN

Chad Summers, 39, of Freeman Street was sentenced to eight years in prison Tuesday for breaking into a mobile home on Shady Lane Circle Northeast in Howland last March and threatening a woman and her daughter with two kitchen knives.

Summers pleaded guilty in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court to one count of aggravated burglary, two counts of kidnapping and two counts of aggravated burglary.

The women told police Summers had been in a relationship with the mother until just before the incident. They said Summers broke into the home while they were watching television, took two knives from the kitchen and threatened to kill himself. Later, he held one knife to the older woman’s abdomen and one to her neck and told her daughter, “You’re going to watch your mother die,” police said.

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