Southington man convicted of assaults after Newton Falls girls soccer game

Staff report

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Daniel L. Miracle, 44, of Shanks Phalanx Road in Southington, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court to reduced charges of misdemeanor assault. He was charged in the head-butting of a boy and assault on an assistant coach after a high-school girls soccer game in Newton Falls last fall.

Miracle will be sentenced after the county Adult Probation Department conducts a pre-sentence investigation. He could get up to a year in jail.

Police said Miracle head-butted the student, 15, of Newton Falls, just after the boy walked near a LaBrae school bus after LaBrae lost 2-1 to Newton Falls. Witnesses said they heard someone tap or slap the bus, and Miracle confronted the boy about it. The head-butt knocked one of the boy’s teeth loose, police said.

After the assault, an assistant Newton Falls coach stepped forward and pulled the boy away from Miracle. Olivia D. Miracle, 21, of the same address as Daniel Miracle, then also assaulted the boy, and Daniel Miracle assaulted the assistant coach, police said. The assistant coach is also an Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper.

Olivia Miracle was later convicted in Newton Falls Municipal Court of fourth-degree misdemeanor assault and was placed on six months’ probation.

Daniel Miracle was indicted on felonious assault related to the boy and misdemeanor assault related to the coach. He could have gotten eight years in prison if convicted.