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LISBON -- Jonathan F. Butts, 43, Jennings Avenue, Salem, pleaded guilty in Common Pleas Court to illegal assembly or possession of chemicals for the manufacture of drugs, a third-degree felony, and aggravated possession of drugs, a fifth-degree felony. He faces up to four years in prison, and a $12,500 fine. Sentencing is set for June 14. The charges were for drugs, including the chemicals needed to manufacture methamphetamines, Butts had on Nov. 4, 2019.
Jordan M. Franklin, 25, Main Street, Wellsville, pleaded guilty to two counts of domestic violence, each a fourth-degree felony, for harming Heather Nichole Craft, a family member on Oct. 17, 2020 and on Dec. 29, 2020, when Franklin already had a 2018 conviction for domestic violence in East Liverpool Municipal Court. He faces up to three years in prison and a $10,000 fine at a sentencing hearing set for May 27.
Taylor L. West, 23, Oak Street, Leetonia, pleaded guilty to trespass in a habitation, a fourth-degree felony, and lesser included offense of burglary, one of the three charges he initially faced. West faces up to 18 months in prison and a $5,000 fine at sentencing on May 24. West had trespassed into Pramita Systems LLC, Vine Avenue, Salem, seeking drugs on May 4, 2020.
Cameron E. Boggs, 30, Washington Street, East Liverpool, stipulated to violating the terms of community control for charges of theft and misuse of credit cards. Boggs' community control was dishonorably terminated and he was ordered to pay $5,700 in restitution to the victim by way of promissory note. Boggs had initially withdrawn funds totaling $11,816 from the account of Darrel Locke, over about a month in 2016, between April 21 and May 22.
Brandon S. Myers, 46, stipulated to violating the terms of his community control from a previous possession of drugs conviction for having a smoking device containing crack cocaine in his sweatshirt pocket on Nov. 15, 2016. Community control was dishonorably terminated.
Neil P. Barber, 45, South Lincoln Avenue, Salem, pleaded guilty to aggravated possession of drugs and was immediately sentenced to six months in prison. Barber had methamphetamines on June 3, 2020.