Pair from Toronto home invasion among those sentenced in Jefferson County Common Pleas Court
STEUBENVILLE –Two men who participated in a home invasion in Toronto were among the six people sentenced in Jefferson County Common Pleas Court on Monday.
George L. Featherman, 25, of 725 Market St. and Christopher Mottle, 31, of 636 Grandview Ave. were each sentenced by Judge Michelle Miller to 61 days in the county jail, followed by six months in the Eastern Ohio Correction Center, after they both pleaded guilty to burglary and assault.
According to Toronto Police, Featherman and Mottle broke into a home in the 700 block of North Fourth Street on Aug. 19 and assaulted a man inside.
Featherman and Mottle will be on probation for two years and face 12 months in prison if they violated probation. They also have to make $1,100 in restitution to the victim.
Jessie L. Turner, 33, of Steubenville was sentenced to 12 months in prison by Miller for a probation violation.
Turner was sentenced to drug court in June 2014 after pleading guilty to breaking and entering and felony theft. He was sentenced in October 2014 to six months in the Eastern Ohio Correction Center on a probation revocation. Miller ordered Turner be released on Monday because he spent 365 days in custody.
Kabarey Harris, 43, of Steubenville was sentenced to six months and six days in prison by Judge Joseph Bruzzese Jr. after Harris pleaded guilty to felony domestic violence and for violating probation on a prior felony domestic violence conviction. Harris was sentenced in December to six months in the Eastern Ohio Correction Center on the prior charge of felony domestic violence.
The victim told Bruzzese she had been abuse by Harris for two years and now can’t trust any man.
Melinda Wilkins, 35, of Toronto was sentenced to 11 months in prison by Bruzzese on a probation violation.
Wilkins was sentenced in August 2015 to six months in the Eastern Ohio Correction Center and placed on probation for one year.
The county’s probation department reported Wilkins violated her probation by testing positive for oxycodone, heroin and cocaine and for not reporting to her probation officer.
Jacob Hale, 23, of 403 Wilson Place was sentenced by Bruzzese to two years in prison after pleading guilty to burglary and theft.
Hale said he kicked open a door to a residence in the 1300 block of Pennsylvania Avenue on July 21 and took a TV.
He told Bruzzese he has a drug problem.
Hale is on probation out of Belmont County on another burglary charge.
(Law can be contacted at mlaw@heraldstaronline.com.)
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