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Man charged in attempted robbery gets 18-month term

WARREN — A man charged in the attempted robbery of a Warren gas station last weekend was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in prison for a felony conviction in an incident where a Braceville police officer was assaulted.

Patrick W. McCombs, 27, 2239 Peace Ave. NW, appeared before Trumbull County Common Pleas Court Judge W. Wyatt McKay, who pronounced concurrent sentences of 18 months for a conviction on two counts of harassment with a bodily substance and 12 months on two convictions of assault.

Court records show McCombs pleaded guilty July 5 to those felonies.

The case centers around a June 25, 2016, incident on Westgate Drive in Braceville, where police officers responded to a domestic violence call. Police reports state officers found an intoxicated man, who kicked an officer in the head and resisted police when they tried to take him to Trumbull Memorial Hospital.

Assistant Trumbull County Prosecutor Diane Barber said that during the struggle, the defendant spit blood on the officers. The defendant also announced to authorities he was suffering from Hepatitis C, Barber said.

McCombs, who had sought a not guilty by insanity plea, was ruled competent, court records show, and then agreed to a plea deal. While McCombs was free on bond from that case, reports show he got into trouble in downtown Warren late Friday night.

Warren Municipal Court records state McCombs pleaded not guilty Monday to an armed robbery charge. Judge Thomas Gysegem had ordered McCombs held without bond. The arrest also triggered a probation violation from McCombs’ earlier conviction in municipal court on drug paraphernalia and disorderly conduct charges.

It is not known if the prison sentence will cancel McCombs’ next municipal court date before Gysegem scheduled for today.

McCombs and another man are accused of trying to rob the Sunoco gas station at 805 W. Market St. early Saturday morning, Warren police report states.

The clerk at Sunoco told officers he was standing outside when a maroon SUV pulled up to a pump about 2 a.m. He said a passenger got out, “racked the slide on a gun he was holding” and told the clerk to follow him to the back of the store, the report states. The clerk refused, and then a woman pulled up to a pump, causing the gunman to get back into the SUV, which drove away on Tod Avenue SW, the report states.

The clerk got the license plate number, the report states, which enabled officers to track it to a Cherry Street home, where they arrested McCombs and the other man. McCombs injured an eye during the arrest and had to be treated at St. Joseph Warren Hospital, the report states.

gvogrin@tribtoday.com

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