A number of defendants are scheduled to be sentenced today in Indiana County Court, some of them for multiple crimes.
35-year-old Vincent Lamar Jackson of Euclid, Ohio is one of them. He’ll be sentenced in three separate cases. He pleaded guilty to possession with intent to deliver in July of this year, to committing the same offense in May of last year, and to criminal use of a communication facility in August of last year.
In the most recent case, Jackson was arrested on a fugitive warrant in July at a home in Burrell Township. State troopers nabbed him as he tried to flee out a back door. Inside the home, they found a bag of narcotics he had tried to flush down the toilet, five grams of raw heroin, a half-ounce of crack cocaine, and other drug paraphernalia. He also faces charges in Ohio.
44-year-old Michael Chilenski of Marion Center faces sentencing for recklessly endangering another person. An aggravated assault charge will not be prosecuted. In January, Chilenski fired rifle shots into a car and wounded a woman who had just visited him to discuss a child custody arrangement. He told police he considered the shots to be warnings because he thought the woman had stolen cash and a credit card from a countertop in the home. The woman, Tina Sims, recovered from a single gunshot wound suffered when one of the shots went through a rear door and struck her. Her 10-year-old son and the driver of the car escaped injury.
20-year-old Ashly Nicole Fancella of Indiana will be sentenced for simple assault, with agreement for non-prosecution for aggravated assault of a victim less than 6 years of age.
33-year-old Mark Edward Smith Jr. of Homer City will be sentenced in two cases, for theft by deception in January of this year and for criminal mischief and resisting arrest in February.
37-year-old George Allen Hood of Seward will be sentenced for receiving stolen property in a burglary case. 31-year-old Corey Heinrich of Windber will be sentenced for retail theft.
