LISBON — A man who injured three Salem police officers and an EMT during a fight July 30, 2023 in Salem was ordered to prison for at least five years, with the possibility of an additional two years if prison officials feel it’s necessary.

Joshua Jesiolowski, 32, Alliance, appeared for sentencing recently in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court before Judge Scott Washam for felonious assault, a first-degree felony, three counts of fourth-degree felony assault and misdemeanor resisting arrest.

He entered a guilty plea to the charges earlier this year.

Jesiolowski was sentenced to 12 months for the assault charges plus four to six years for the felonious assault bringing the total to five to seven years. The 180-day term for resisting arrest was ordered to be served at the same time. He received credit for 275 days already served in jail. A charge of disorderly conduct was dismissed.

The felonious assault resulted from Jesiolowski causing serious physical harm to a Salem police sergeant who ended up hospitalized at the time because of the defendant’s violent behavior and actions.

The three assaults on peace officers resulted from Jesiolowski striking a Salem police officer in the face while impaired by drugs, causing physical harm and a cut to the face, along with striking an EMT in the head in the back of an ambulance and causing serious physical harm to another Salem police officer by kicking him and fighting him, injuring his back and causing him to be hospitalized.

Also in Common Pleas Court:

— Damien Phillips, 21, Ohio Avenue, Salem, was placed under community control for four years for 29 counts of vandalism, a fifth-degree felony, with credit for 160 days served in jail. He was ordered to make restitution of $2,935 to Stadium Chevrolet and $3,047 to the U.S. Postal Service for damages to vehicles. Phillips was accused of causing damage to at least 15 or more vehicles at Stadium Chevrolet and a dozen postal delivery trucks at the Salem Post Office between Dec. 1, 2022 and Dec. 3, 2022 in Salem. According to Salem Police reports, multiple tires were slashed on multiple vehicles at both locations. The dealership vehicles damaged included 2022 and 2023 models for Chevy Silverado, Chevy Tahoe, GMC Sierra, Buick Enclave and Cadillac XT6.

— Dustin Martin, 37, Youngstown, was sentenced to 18 months in prison, with credit for 10 days served in jail, for a lesser-included offense of fourth-degree felony domestic violence. He was originally charged with a third-degree felony. Charges of felonious assault, a second-degree felony, and third-degree felony abduction were dismissed. Martin was accused of causing physical harm to a woman at a residence on Steubenville Pike Road in Lisbon on Jan. 21, 2023 by choking her, throwing her to the floor and causing her to lose consciousness. The indictment alleged he also restricted her liberty.

— Jerrid Kotsch, 38, Woodville Road, Leetonia, pleaded guilty to charges in two separate indictments, including third-degree felonies of complicity in the commission of an offense and having weapons while under disability and misdemeanors of falsification and illegal use or possession of drug paraphernalia. A charge of possessing drug abuse instruments was dismissed. Sentencing was set for Aug. 5. Kotsch was being detained as a fugitive from justice and had a loaded firearm in a bag of clothing in the back of the truck in which he was a passenger on Sept. 17, 2023. He also possessed drug paraphernalia, multiple hypodermic needles and used someone else’s driver’s license when asked for ID. From Oct 3, 2021 to Oct. 6, 2021, he was accused of soliciting or procuring another person to commit illegal conveyance of drugs of abuse onto the grounds of a specified governmental facility.

— Joseph Mitchell Jr., 33, Hamilton Road, East Palestine, was sentenced to prison for 14 months for a lesser offense of fourth-degree felony failure to register for failing to report his address as part of the sex offender registration to the sheriff’s office on May 10, 2021 when he moved to East Palestine from Pennsylvania. He was originally charged with a second-degree felony. He received credit for 80 days served in jail.

— Richard Wright, 29, state Route 39, Wellsville, was placed under community control for three years for third-degree felony failure to provide notice of change of address for failing to notify the sheriff’s office on Sept. 14, 2023 of his change of address as required since he’s a registered sex offender. He received credit for four days served in jail.