Ex-teacher released

Ex-teacher released

CAMPBELL

A former Campbell Memorial High School teacher has been released from prison early after serving about one year of her four-year sentence.

Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge R. Scott Krichbaum on Friday granted a motion for the early release of Shannon Pavlansky-Wojtowicz, 32. Pavlansky-Wojtowicz will serve five years’ probation and must register as a sex offender for the rest of her life.

Judge Krichbaum sentenced Pavlansky-Wojtowicz in October 2015 to four years in prison after she pleaded guilty to having sexual relations with three 17-year-old male high school students.

Pavlansky-Wojtowicz was pregnant at the time of the sentencing, when Judge Krichbaum denied a request from the defense to delay her incarceration until after she gave birth.

Hearing canceled

WARREN

The evidence suppression hearing scheduled for today in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court for Russell Lauer III, charged with vehicular homicide, failing to stop after an accident, drunken driving and a lane violation in the death of a jogger, was canceled.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper, Lindsay Woodward, who was supposed to testify at the hearing was unavailable, according to a filing Thursday by the Trumbull County Prosecutor’s office.

Woodward retired and lives in South Carolina and could not attend because of family and job responsibilities but will be available “well in advance” of the Feb. 6 trial date, the filing says.

Lauer has argued in a court filing that statements Lauer made to Woodward and blood-test results related to Lauer should be suppressed from evidence in the case.

No new hearing date has been scheduled.

Free on bond

SEBRING

A 29-year-old West Ohio Avenue man is free on $5,250 bond after being arraigned Thursday on child endangering and assault charges in connection with his purportedly hitting a 4-year-old girl with his hand while punishing her.

Dale L. Rosier Jr. will again appear before Judge Diane Vettori in Sebring Court at 1 p.m. Nov. 23 for a preliminary hearing on the fourth-degree felony child endangering charge and a pre-trial hearing on the first-degree misdemeanor assault charge.

Police said Rosier hit his girlfriend’s daughter so hard Oct. 30 that she suffered a bruised face and a cut lip.

Man sentenced for fight with officers

WARREN

Jeffrey Chinchic, 50, of Adrian Circle in Liberty Township, was sentenced to two years in prison Thursday in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court for a May 7 incident in which he fought with Liberty police officers, injuring two of them.

When police arrived at 5 a.m. for Chinchic behaving erratically and being intoxicated, Chinchic punched one officer in the face and slammed officers into a wall.

One officer suffered a fractured cheek bone and lacerations, and another reported injuries to his knee and elbow.

Chinchic agreed to the prison sentence after pleading guilty to felonious assault.