Trumbull group honors crime investigators, sheriff
Staff report
WARREN
Several awards were given to local and state crime investigators and others at the annual Trumbull County Homicide Investigation and Prosecution Task Force meeting.
Detective Wayne Mackey of the Warren Police Department was recognized for work on the Michael Settle murder case and the William Fambro murder case.
Settle was sentenced to 46 years in prison in 2015 in the slaying of James Levels, 64, of Warren and the wounding of Lisa Prater at Prater’s South Street home in 2014.
Fambro was sentenced to life in prison in May for killing Teresa Hunter at the Riverview Motel in Warren in October 2015.
Detective Eric Laprocina and Sgt. Geoff Fusco, also of the Warren Police Department, also were honored for their work on the Fambro case.
The task force also gave a service award to Trumbull County Sheriff Thomas Altiere for being the longest-serving sheriff in county history (24 years). He was a charter member of the task force in 1984 when he was Howland police chief.
Tom Stewart, chief deputy of the Trumbull County Sheriff’s Office, was recognized for his 50 years as a police officer in Warren and then with the sheriff’s office.
The organization also recognized LuWayne Annos, chief of the appellate division of the county prosecutor’s office, for her years of exemplary service in representing the state on appeals cases.