WARREN — A Warren woman on Thursday was given a 160-day jail sentence and a five-year ban from shopping at the Eastwood Mall complex after she was convicted of a petty theft charge.

Julie A. Crenshaw, 32, 509 Phillips Drive, Warren, pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor. In pronouncing the jail sentence, Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge Ronald J. Rice noted Crenshaw’s eight prior theft convictions.

The judge also placed Crenshaw on five years probation and ordered her to pay more than $1,581 in restitution to an Eastwood Mall complex store.

Crenshaw apologized for the offense, but left in tears after the judge banned her from the mall complex.

Howland police reports show the manager of the Ulta store at 2106 Niles Cortland Road reported March 9 that two women had stolen more than $1,500 of men’s and women’s fragrances on four separate occasions between Feb. 19 and March 4.

According to the report, the women had a pattern of arriving 10 to 15 minutes prior to closing and concealing the merchandise, then exiting without paying. The store manager told police security videos had captured three of the four alleged thefts.

Court records show that Crenshaw’s other Common Pleas Court case occurred in 2016. She was given a five-year probation on a felony assault conviction linked to the striking of a McGuffey PK-8 school principal in the fall of 2015.

Common Pleas Judge Andrew D. Logan at the time told Crenshaw the charges “are serious whenever someone barges into a school and assaults a school official.” Crenshaw told Logan she had attended counseling and anger management classes.

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