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Girard man gets 180 days in jail for pandering sexually oriented material involving minor

By Trumbull County Prosecutor’s Office

January 25, 2024 11:05 AM

The following cases were handled Wednesday before Judge Sean O’Brien of the Trumbull County Common Pleas Court:

Jacob Poe, 41, of Taylor Avenue, Girard, was given a five-year probation starting with a 180-day sentence to be served in the Trumbull County jail after he had pleaded guilty on Dec. 6, 2023, to two counts of pandering sexually oriented material involving a minor. Poe was labeled a Tier 2 sex offender which will require him to register his address twice per year for the next 25 years. Other terms of his probation will limit Poe to one cellphone with his internet usage to be monitored and he will have no social media contact. The case involved downloading child pornography. “The only reason you aren’t going to prison is that you din’t involve yourself in that activity, you just watched it,” Judge O’Brien told the defendant. The defendant told the just he was battling depression and “went off his meds” going to a dark place on the internet. “I regret it,” Poe said.
David Hubbard, 40, of North Road NE, Warren, was sentenced to 24 months in state prison after he admitted to violating his probation for a August 2022 conviction for third degree domestic violence and third-degree violating a protection order. Hubbard also faces new charges of strangulation and domestic violence before Judge Ronald Rice in Common Pleas Court, his probation officer said. Judge O’Brien said this prison sentence is not tied to any sentence he would face if convicted of the new charges in Judge Rice’s courtroom.

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