WARREN — A Cortland man received three years of probation and was credited for serving 60 days in jail earlier this week in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court after he pleaded guilty in late January to one count of third-degree robbery.

Kelly Sexton, 19, and his co-defendant, Alivia Spitzer, acted as the getaway drivers for the juvenile who robbed the Vapor Kings store on Elm Road NE in Warren with a fake gun on July 14. Spitzer was sentenced to probation last week.

The suspect, whose name was never released, was sentenced in juvenile court for riding up to the store on a motorized scooter, entering the store and showing a pistol to the store clerk before demanding items.

Sexton, who was 18 at the time of the robbery, was facing a first-degree felony aggravated robbery charge in the case, but prosecutors amended the charge to a third-degree robbery in exchange for his guilty plea. He could have received three years in prison.

According to a Warren police report, on July 14, 2025, a young male wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, tight black sweatpants and a black ski mask entered the store just before noon. The suspect, who had a pistol tucked in his waistband, demanded age-restricted items, including two jars of hemp flower and a carton of cigarillos.

When the store employee asked for identification, the suspect lifted his hooded sweatshirt to show the gun and threatened the employee to not make any moves. The suspect then fled on a motorized scooter toward the Giant Eagle plaza.

A witness told police he was standing close to the suspect during the robbery and could identify him by his bright eyes and pale skin, as well as his “distinctive voice.” Police reviewed security footage from Vapor Kings and Giant Eagle.

Also sentenced earlier this week were:

• Gerald J. Jones Jr., 35, of Bank Street NE, Warren, was sentenced to an indefinite four- to six-year prison term after pleading guilty Dec. 10 to two second-degree felony kidnapping and one fourth-degree grand theft felony. The case involved a July 11 incident at the Save-A-Lot parking lot in Warren, where a woman reported her vehicle was stolen with her juvenile children inside.

Jones was declared a violent offender and must register to a database once per year for 10 years once he is released from prison.

• Amiyah Clinkscale, 20, Tyrell Avenue, Youngstown, was sentenced to an indefinite three to four-and-a-half-year prison sentence after being convicted Feb. 5 of two counts of felonious assault, second-degree felonies. The case originated in July when two people were fighting in the parking lot of a gas station at Kenilworth and Woodbine Avenues and Clinkscale drove her vehicle through the crowd of people, resulting in three people being injured, but not seriously.

The judge cited an aggravated battery charge for the defendant when she was age 13 in Florida and a pending fleeing and eluding charge in Pennsylvania in denying probation for her.

• Kyle McMahan, 25, St. John Avenue, Niles, received an indefinite two- to three-year prison sentence after being found guilty by a Trumbull County jury in mid-January of a second-degree felonious assault charge. McMahan, after a two-day trial, was convicted of assaulting a neighbor with a baseball bat after the neighbor set off fireworks near his home during a July 4 holiday celebration.

The neighbor, who was struck on the side of the head, delivered a victim’s impact statement talking about his head injuries that resulted in a loss of hearing and trauma to his teenage daughter, who witnessed the attack.

McMahan could have received up to 12 years in prison.