3 sentenced in heroin case

YOUNGSTOWN — Two men who pleaded guilty to their roles in supplying or selling drugs as part of a ring that sold heroin on the East Side received prison sentences today in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, while a heroin user narrowly avoided prison for a parole violation.

That defendant, however, Mark Piroch, 27, of North Main Street in Austintown, was given two weeks to find a facility to get treatment for his addiction after he walked out of Community Corrections Association and violated his probation in the case. If he cannot find that treatment, he will go to prison, said Judge Shirley J. Christian.

Sentenced to three years in prison on charges of trafficking in heroin was Kelvin Crenshaw, 28, of East Lucius Avenue. Sentenced to 41⁄2 years in prison with at least three years mandatory was Michael Cain, 38, of Cherry Hill Avenue, on charges of complicity to trafficking in heroin, trafficking in heroin, engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity and being a felon in possession of a firearm.

Both sentences were agreed upon by prosecutors and defense attorneys.

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