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Youngstown man gets eight months on felony drug charge

By Trumbull County Prosecutor’s Office
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The following cases were handled Wednesday before Judge Sean O’Brien of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court:

  • Charles Dennison, 43, of Delason Avenue, Youngstown, pleaded guilty to a fourth-degree felony of aggravated trafficking in drugs and received an eight-month prison sentence. Dennison was arrested in March 2021 after an investigation by the Trumbull County Sheriff’s TAG drug task force found he had sold a confidential informant more than 1.5 grams of methamphetamine.
  • Jacqueline B. Jue, 32, of Sheridan Avenue NE, Warren, pleaded guilty to a fourth-degree OVI felony. Jue who could get a maximum prison term of 18 months, was convicted of a prior OVI. She will submit to a background investigation before sentencing. The case involved a Feb. 15, 2023, single-car crash in Warren in which a vehicle struck a utility pole. Jue was found to be over the .08 blood-alcohol limit for legal driving in Ohio.
  • Keith Gillespie, 47, of Kent, pleaded guilty to a fifth-degree theft felony and was sentenced to six months in prison. The case involved an Aug. 19, 2023 incident whenere Howland police officers were called to the parking lot of Kohl’s to check on an unconscious woman in a vehicle and found a man leaving the Kohl’s store with a cart ful of merchandise he didn’t pay for. Gillespie was later arrested by Niles police farther north in the mall complex and was found with $1,107 of merchandise, most of which was clothing, that was returned to Kohl’s, the report stated.
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