Warren man could get 400 years in prison in rape case

Staff report

WARREN

Keion L. Stella, 35, of Dunstan Drive Northwest, is now being held on $1 million bond on Trumbull County charges and $500,000 bond in Mahoning County for crimes authorities say he committed over four days last month, including 22 rapes against three females while holding a gun.

Stella has been locked up in the Mahoning County Justice Center since Oct. 8 except for a few hours Tuesday morning, when he was taken to Warren for arraignment on Trumbull County charges and pleaded not guilty. He was arrested Oct. 8 by Youngstown police.

Stella’s 40 charges in the two counties could produce a prison sentence of about 400 years if he were convicted of everything.

His Trumbull County indictment says his 27 alleged offenses in Warren began Oct. 4 and continued Oct. 7. Police were called to a local hospital Oct. 8 after the victims went there. One of the victims is a juvenile.

His crimes in Mahoning County occurred Oct. 8 in Youngstown, according to court documents.

In addition to the 12 counts of rape Stella faces in Trumbull County, he’s also indicted on six counts of kidnapping, six counts of felonious assault and three counts of aggravated burglary here.

In Mahoning County, he’s indicted on 10 counts of rape and three counts of kidnapping. All of the charges in both counties include specifications that he used a gun while committing the crimes.

In Mahoning County, he’s accused of going to a Parmalee Avenue home in Youngstown about 4 p.m. Oct. 8 to speak to a woman there about a recent breakup. He then forced his way inside at gunpoint, tied the woman up, took her upstairs and raped her, then took her downstairs and raped her again.

The woman’s two children, age 5 and 6, were there at the time. Stella was taken into custody a short time after he left a home on Volney Road in Youngstown.