Road closure

Road closure

YOUNGSTOWN

West Newport Drive in Mill Creek Park is closed for a road-improvement project. The project consists of improvements to West Newport from Canfield Road to the Hampton Drive entrance, according to a news release. Mill Creek MetroParks aims to improve storm-water drainage and road surface conditions. The project is expected to last about one month.

Resentencing

COLUMBUS

A Youngstown man serving a 112-year prison sentence for raping an Ohio college student will be resentenced after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to decide whether the sentence was too long.

Defendant Brandon Moore was tried as an adult and convicted by a jury in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court in the 2001 armed kidnapping, robbery and gang rape of a 22-year-old Youngstown State University student. The 31-year-old Moore was 15 at the time of the crime.

The Ohio Supreme Court overturned the sentence in December, saying it constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.

Child found in road

BOARDMAN

Township police responded early Monday to the intersection of South Schenley Avenue and Straley Lane for a report of a child found in the roadway, according to a police report.

The caller told police he saw a child, wearing only a T-shirt and a diaper, sitting on a curb near the intersection.

Police made contact with the 3-year-old’s mother after she called 911 to report she could not find her son, police said. The mother told police the child has a genetic condition called Trisomy 8 that makes him immune to pain, according to the report.

Police said the woman was “very apologetic and crying,” and planned to purchase a child-locator device for the child.

Deposition taken

WARREN

A former member of the Forever Two Wheelz motorcycle club testified Tuesday in a videotaped deposition that will be shown to jurors if a trial starts Dec. 11 in the murder of two Brothers Regime club members.

Dayton Lough, 60, was questioned by an assistant prosecutor and defense attorneys for David Bailes Jr., 45, and Charles Dellapenna III, 47, for about 90 minutes. He was a witness to the June 18, 2016, shootings at Shorty’s Place tavern on Highland Avenue in Warren Township that killed two members of the Brothers Regime and injured two others.

Court officials said if Bailes and Dellapenna had gone on trial last week or this week, as originally planned, they believe Lough would have testified in person. But when the trial was canceled twice because of the unavailability of other witnesses, there was concern about getting Lough to court to testify. Bailes and Dellapenna were present in court.

Hearing waived

NEWTON FALLS

Clarence L. Peyatt, 76, of Marquis Drive, Newton Township waived a preliminary hearing Tuesday in Newton Falls Municipal Court, and his attempted-murder charge was bound over to a Trumbull County grand jury.

Peyatta is accused of shooting a neighbor, 59, on Sept. 23 in the Blue Manor mobile home park on King’s Drive in the township. The victim was shot in the stomach while walking his dog in the 10:30 a.m. incident. Police said Peyatt fired numerous times at the victim from Peyatt’s house, hitting the victim once. He remains in the county jail on a $100,000 bond.