Info to grand jury

Info to grand jury

WARREN

The Warren Police Department will be presenting information about the Feb. 2 apparent drug overdoses of babies 21 and 9 months to a Trumbull County grand jury.

The children were unresponsive and taken to the hospital by their mother, but both responded to a dose of naloxone, the opiate-overdose-reversal drug, leading officials to believe they had eaten an opiate such as heroin.

Both children were transferred to Akron Children’s Hospital, where each received a second dose of naloxone. They were released from the hospital in good condition a few days later and were placed in the care of county children services.

Police said their mother, 18, of Randolph Street Northwest, is the main suspect in the case because she was at the home when the children became unresponsive.

Man sentenced

YOUNGSTOWN

Judge Shirley J. Christian of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court sentenced Carlos Lujano, 20, of Warren, to four years in prison for his role in a Feb. 13, 2015, shooting into a house on Elm Trace in Austintown.

Lujano was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty to a charge of improper discharge of a firearm at or into a habitation, a second-degree felony. No one was injured in the shooting.

One other person was sentenced to prison for their role in the case while a third person received probation. A fourth person also is expected to receive probation.

To be sentenced

WARREN

The owner of an auto-repair shop has been convicted at trial in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court of failing to remit $22,868 in state sales taxes from 2010 to 2014 for the business.

Kevin L. Evans, 38, owner of KC Quality Custom Care Auto, 3080 Mahoning Ave. NW, will be sentenced after the county’s Adult Probation Department conducts a pre-sentence investigation. Evans could get several years in prison. The company also was convicted Wednesday of the same offenses.

Evans spent 50 months in federal prison beginning in 2004 for an elaborate identity-theft scheme he and others carried out in the Warren area.

He was fitted with an electronic stun vest during the trial, for which he served as his own attorney, after an outburst aimed at Judge W. Wyatt McKay on Wednesday.

Malnutrition study

COLUMBUS

A new state panel would study malnutrition among Ohio’s older residents, under legislation being considered in the Ohio Senate.

Sen. Gayle Manning, R-North Ridgeville, hopes the proposed Malnutrition Prevention Commission will raise awareness of the issue and develop strategies for combating it.

“Malnutrition among older adults results in more medical problems, longer stays in hospitals, and an inability to successfully recuperate after an initial incident,” Manning told the Senate’s Health and Human Services Committee, where SB 245 had its first hearing Wednesday.

The legislation would call for a new, eight-person commission to submit a report within a year of its creation.

Block Watch

YOUNGSTOWN

Powerstown Neighbors Block Watch will meet at 7 p.m. today at Faith Community Church, 1919 Midlothian Blvd. Councilwoman Basia Adamczak, D-7th, will attend to discuss neighborhood issues.

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