Warren man gets five years in prison for Hubbard assaults and robbery

Staff report

WARREN

Joshua L. Wauer, 30, of Bonnie Brae Avenue Northeast was sentenced to five years in prison Tuesday for punching three men outside a bar early June 21 in downtown Hubbard, including one who suffered a fractured skull.

Wauer was convicted at trial April 6 of felonious assault, robbery, tampering with evidence, misdemeanor assault and driving under a suspension for drunken driving.

Testimony in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court indicated that Wauer confronted two men in a car at 2:30 a.m. on North Main Street after one of them made a sexual remark about Wauer’s girlfriend.

Wauer then assaulted both men. When James McIntyre of Hubbard walked out into the street because of the incident, Wauer hit him with a single punch, causing McIntyre to fall to the road, hitting his head and suffering a skull fracture.

Wauer and his friends had just left the Wing Express Reloaded tavern on Main Street when the incident occurred.

Wauer’s attorney, Michael Scala, told the jury in closing arguments that McIntyre walked up to Wauer with fists ready to strike, and that McIntyre was intoxicated.“If you are trying to hit somebody, you get hit back,” Scala said of McIntyre.