Organizer of last summer’s Trumbull ‘bike life’ ride gets 30 days in jail. license suspension

By Ed Runyan

runyan@vindy.com

WARREN

Trevor S. Hall, 22, of Buena Vista Avenue Northeast, was sentenced to 30 days in the Trumbull County Jail on Monday after pleading guilty earlier to three felony charges connected to the “bike life” event he organized last August.

Hall had pleaded guilty to two counts of failure to comply with the orders of a police officer for participating in the ride, and one of receiving stolen property filed because Hall was riding a stolen four-wheeler Aug. 24, prosecutors said.

Hall apologized to Judge Peter Kontos for his actions, saying he didn’t realize it would affect so many people, including his own family.

Judge Kontos sentenced Hall to five years’ probation, ordered a three-year driver’s license suspension and had him handcuffed so he could begin serving his 30-day jail sentence immediately.

Police said Hall promoted the Aug. 30 ride on social media, and roughly 70 people arrived to participate, driving off-road four-wheelers and off-road motorcycles on public roads.

Off-road vehicles cannot be legally driven on public streets, police said.

Some of the riders were seen doing “wheelies” and taking up all lanes of travel, including lanes coming in the opposite direction on Youngstown Road, and refusing to stop for police with lights and sirens activated, police said.

Dash-cam video showed some of the participants waving at police and taunting them.

Hall’s mother, Eileen Hahn, said after court that she and her son wrote to Judge Kontos to explain that Trevor had organized the event to bring awareness to several issues, including drug abuse.

Motorcycle poker runs “raise money for the animal welfare league, cancer. He was riding against heroin, against violence,” she said.

“He had a very good heart as to what he intended to do. He just didn’t go about it right,” she said, adding that his daughter was born two days after the ride.

Police said the riders put other drivers in danger because of their behavior.

Besides Hall, the other people indicted in the ride are from the Cleveland and Akron areas.