Former Warren man gets 27 years in federal prison for guns, 3.6 pounds of heroin

Staff report

CLEVELAND

Former city man Ricardo B. McKinney, 32, was sentenced to 27 years in prison Wednesday for possessing two firearms and 3.6 pounds of heroin in a home on North Road in Warren in 2015.

McKinney was convicted during a jury trial in March of two counts of distribution of heroin, one count of possession with the intent to distribute 1 kilogram or more of heroin and one count of being a felon in possession of firearms.

Warren police conducted a raid at a house where McKinney was staying on North Road in February 2015. There they found heroin with a street value of $250,000, two guns and about $6,000 in cash.

“Between the kilo of heroin he had, and the two firearms he possessed despite being a felon, this defendant was a clear danger to the people of Warren,” said Justin Herdman, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio. “Law enforcement worked collaboratively in this case to make Trumbull County a safer place.”