Youngstown woman jailed after Warren crash

Staff report

WARREN

Martha E. Sandino-Rios, 36, of McGuffey Road in Youngstown, is in the Trumbull County Jail not eligible to make bond, charged with child endangering and other misdemeanor offenses in a 2:55 p.m. Friday afternoon vehicle crash on East Market Street near Elm Road.

Sandino-Rios pleaded not guilty during her hearing Monday morning in Warren Municipal Court to endangering, drug possession, drunken driving, failure to maintain assured clear distance and improper use of a child restraint.

Jail records say she’s not eligible to make bond because of an earlier felony drug case.

Police said they were alerted to a white sport utility vehicle traveling recklessly on East Market Street, then found the crash involving Sandino-Rios’ white Ford Expedition, which had rear-ended another vehicle.

Sandino-Rios told the officer the vehicle malfunctioned, but her speech was slurred. She was given field-sobriety tests and later consented to a blood test. She said she had taken pills that morning for migraines.

She and a 5-month-old son in the car were taken by ambulance to the hospital, but police did not say whether the child suffered any injury.

Mahoning County Children Services came and took the child from the hospital, police said.

Sandino-Rios has two other children, she told police – one in day care and one in school.

A Trumbull County Common Pleas Court judge sentenced Sandino-Rios to five years’ probation in April 2015 after she pleaded guilty to several drug-related felonies, including deception to obtain a dangerous drug.