Court News

LISBON — Brian Dean Tinker, 43. North Jefferson Street, Lisbon, pleaded guilty to failure to comply with an order or signal of a police officer, a fourth-degree felony, and misdemeanor obstructing official business, with sentencing July 16. Another failure to comply charge will be dismissed. He ran a stop sign at East Pine and North Jefferson in Lisbon, then fled when police attempted a traffic stop, crashing into a house on Jefferson and fleeing from officers on foot on Nov. 3, 2025, finally stopping in the cemetery.

— Brandon S. Myers, 52, Anderson Street, Wellsville, was sentenced to 38 days in jail, with credit for eight days served, leaving 30 days still to serve after pleading guilty to attempted possession of cocaine, a misdemeanor lesser-included offense. The original charge was felony possession of cocaine for possessing cocaine on July 24, 2023.

— Donald R. Quick, 20, Imperial, Pa., was placed on a treatment plan for three years after pleading guilty to fifth-degree felonies of breaking and entering and possessing criminal tools and misdemeanors of theft and criminal damaging for breaking into the former East Liverpool Motor Lodge, known as Central Storage LLC, on Dresden Avenue on Nov. 14, 2025 with three other defendants. A boarded up door was kicked open and entry was made with walkie talkies and flashlights, with multiple items removed and placed in a vehicle and on a trailer. Quick received credit for two days served in jail.

— Thomas R. Hilty, 41, Niles, was placed under community control for 24 months and received credit for 20 days served in jail for aggravated possession of drugs, a fifth-degree felony, for possessing methamphetamine on Sept. 29, 2024.

— Dimitri A. White, 32, Beaver, Pa., was placed under an intervention plan for 18 months after pleading guilty to trafficking in drugs, a fourth-degree felony, with a specification for forfeiture of money from a drug case, and possession of drugs, a fifth-degree felony. He was ordered to forfeit $250. On Nov. 30, 2017, he attempted to sell marijuana in the vicinity of a school and on Feb. 1, 2017 he possessed cocaine.

— Taylor Scott Snyder, 35, North Market Street, was ordered to serve a term at the Eastern Ohio Correction Center until the program is successfully completed during sentencing for fourth-degree felony domestic violence and misdemeanor aggravated menacing. He received credit for 180 days served in jail and was placed under community control for three years. A felony charge of strangulation was dismissed. Snyder was accused of beating a woman and saying he was going to kill her on Jan. 29 in East Palestine. The affidavit said he allegedly threw her around like a rag doll, biting her left ear, kicking her in the back of her neck, attempting to gouge her eye out, pulling her earrings out, punching her and putting her in a headlock.

— Marcus Z. Reed, 23, Nittany Drive, Summitville, was ordered to serve 210 days in jail, with credit for 185 days served, leaving a balance of 25 days to serve in jail for violating the terms of his probation for aggravated possession of drugs, a fifth-degree felony, for possessing methamphetamine on Feb. 5, 2024. Once he serves that time, he must serve up to six months at the Eastern Ohio Correction Center for a separate case for pleading guilty to failure to comply with an order or signal of a police officer, a third-degree felony. For that case he was also placed under community control for three years and his license was suspended for 36 months for fleeing from law enforcement on Dec. 6, 2025.

— Jaycent Staats, 42, Massillon, was sentenced to a total of 21 months in prison for two separate cases. He was sentenced to 12 months in prison for third-degree felony illegal conveyance of drugs of abuse onto the grounds of a specified governmental facility, and fifth-degree felonies of possession of cocaine and aggravated possession of drugs, with credit for 19 days served. Staats was accused of possessing cocaine and methamphetamine and trying to take drugs into a detention facility on Feb. 4, 2024. He also entered a guilty plea to aggravated possession of drugs, a fifth-degree felony, for possessing methamphetamine on June 21, 2024 and was sentenced to 9 months in prison, with the term to be served consecutively to the 12-month term, bringing the total time to 21 months.