Charges in festival fracas sent to grand jury

AUSTINTOWN — A Boardman woman accused in a church-festival fracas waived a preliminary hearing and her case could be heard in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.

Michelle A. Murphy, 21, of Erie Street in Boardman, was in Mahoning County Area Court here today on misdemeanor charges of inducing panic, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct (failed to desist) along with a felony charge of assault on a police officer. All the charges were bound over to the county grand jury.

Also charged in the incident at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Festival were George J. Huston, 18, of Schenley Avenue, inciting violence and disorderly conduct, both misdemeanors; and Jonathon Daviduk, 18, of North Belle Vista Avenue, Youngstown, disorderly conduct.

Huston has a trial set for 10 a.m. Aug. 5 in Austintown court on the misdemeanor charges. He has a felony case on charges of receiving stolen property in common pleas court. Huston has a pretrial hearing in that case scheduled for July 14.

Daviduk had a pretrial hearing June 29 at which he was fined $170 plus court costs after pleading guilty.

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