Newton Falls woman sentenced to prison after leading police on 26-minute chase

Staff report

WARREN

A woman charged with leading police from several departments on a 26-minute chase through Warren, Champion and Howland in the spring was sentenced to 18 months in prison Tuesday.

Alexandria S. Fetterolf, 28, of Ridge Road, Newton Falls, was convicted on a drug-theft charge. She still has a case pending in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court related to the chase.

But by picking up the drug-theft charge while being part of the Trumbull County Drug Court program, she violated one of the chief requirements of the program – not getting charged with another felony offense.

Fetterolf was placed in drug court, which operates out of the courtroom of Judge Andrew Logan, in October 2013 as a result of a drug-theft charge dating back to June 2013, according to court records.

She pleaded guilty to the charge in exchange for being allowed to enter drug court and having the chance to have the case removed from her record if she completed the program successfully. Now, however, she gets the conviction and the prison term.

“We tell people you get a bite at the apple. If you go ahead and commit another felony offense, you’ll likely be removed from the program,” said Darryl L. Rodgers, drug court administrator.

Fetterolf had been away from drug court for several months when she was charged in the June 1 chase, which began at the Mahoning Avenue Giant Eagle with 911 calls indicating she had apparently overdosed in her car.

When an officer arrived, she started driving her car and fled north on Mahoning into Champion, then west to Risher Road and then to Mistletoe Road just off North Road, where she crashed the car.

She was indicted in July for failure to comply with the order of a police officer, and that case is pending. She could get several more years in prison if convicted on that charge.

In another case, Ashley M. Baritell, 32, of Wood Street in Niles and Jackson Street in Warren, was sentenced to eight years in prison on convictions for aggravated burglary, aggravated robbery, and kidnapping. Police said they caught her and two other people July 28, 2014, on Phillips Drive Southwest committing an armed burglary while holding two victims hostage with firearms. Her sentence also was for an earlier Warren robbery.