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Warren woman going to prison for providing drugs that caused overdoses
By Ed Runyan
WARREN
Heather Cope is going to prison for 30 months for giving her 16-year-old nephew and another young male cocaine June 30, leading to both males overdosing.
Both were saved with the opiate-reversal drug naloxone at Trumbull Memorial Hospital.
Cope, 35, of Laird Avenue and Atlantic Street Northeast, pleaded guilty Tuesday to two counts of corrupting another with drugs, two counts of cocaine trafficking and single counts of child endangering and permitting drug abuse.
Diane Barber, assistant Trumbull County prosecutor, said Cope’s husband also overdosed on the same drugs the day before she gave them to the two young males.
Meanwhile, pretrial hearings Tuesday before Judge Andrew Logan in common pleas court did not alter the Monday trial date for two motorcycle club members charged in the shooting deaths of two members of a rival motorcycle club and injuries to two others.
David H. Bailes Jr., 45, and Charles Dellapenna III, 47, both of Warren, were brought to the courthouse under extra security.
Deputies closed off the section of High Street Northeast between the courthouse and county jail while Bailes and Dellapenna were taken to the courthouse.
Maj. Dan Mason, jail administrator, said he believes the reason for the extra security is because Bailes and Dellapenna are accused of offenses against members of Brothers Regime motorcycle club.
Bailes and Dellapena are members of the Forever Two Wheelz club.
The gunfight occurred June 18, 2016, at Shorty’s Place tavern on Highland Avenue in Warren Township.
Another member of Forever Two Wheelz, James Gardner, 48, of Warren, accepted a plea agreement and has agreed to testify against Bailes, who is his wife’s son; and Dellapenna, his wife’s nephew.
Also in Judge Logan’s courtroom, Paul Pollis, 51, of Southwind Drive in Howland, was sentenced to five months in prison Tuesday for violating the terms of his probation on a 2015 cocaine-possession conviction.
His probation violations were going to Washington, D.C., without permission of his probation officer, failing to report to his probation officer in March, May, July and August, admitting he had smoked marijuana and refusing to submit to a drug test when being admitted to the jail on the probation violation.
Pollis has gone to prison two other times for probation violations – in 2007 and 2009. Pollis will get credit for the two months he has spent in the jail this summer, reducing his total prison sentence to about three months.