North Lima man gets to 8 years in obscenity case involving minor

YOUNGSTOWN — A North Lima man has been sentenced to eight years in prison after he pleaded guilty to 15 counts of pandering obscenity involving a minor and one count of attempted pandering obscenity involving a minor.

Mark Lucicosky, 43, of Woodworth Road, was sentenced this morning by Judge Maureen A. Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.

Lucicosky initially had been indicted by a county grand jury May 14, 2015, on 17 counts of pandering obscenity involving a minor, with the alleged offenses having occurred in November 2014, and Jan. 15, 2015.

In the plea agreement, the prosecution dropped one count and reduced another to the attempted offense.

On Jan. 15, 2015, agents from the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, together with Beaver Township police and county sheriff’s office deputies, executed a search warrant at Lucicosky’s residence.

During the search, a BCI agent found images on a compact disc of adolescent males engaged in sex acts.