YOUNGSTOWN — One day after refusing a plea agreement for eight years in prison for a series of motorized vehicle thefts, Ronald J. Adams II, of Columbia S.C., changed course and pleaded guilty.
Adams, 24, returned to court Thursday and accepted the agreement, pleading guilty to engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity and eight counts of grand theft of a motor vehicle.
Mahoning County prosecutors will recommend that Adams get an indefinite sentence of four to six years in prison on the corruption charge and four more years on the eight grand theft charges for a total of eight to 10 years. Judge Maureen Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court accepted his guilty pleas and will sentence him at 9 a.m. Wednesday.
Adams is one of five people charged in the enterprise that stole dirt bikes, motorcycles and an all-terrain vehicle from outside of people’s homes in Canfield, Springfield, Boardman and Goshen townships, mostly in March and April 2020.
Another target was Point View Cycle in Canfield, where about a dozen or more motorcycles were taken April 8 and 9, 2020. Many of the stolen items were found in an apartment on Victor Avenue on Youngstown’s East Side. The Ohio State Highway Patrol investigated the case.
All four of the other defendants entered guilty pleas earlier.
Adams was indicted on the corruption charge, four counts of breaking and entering, one count of theft and 20 counts of grand theft of a motor vehicle.
In Ohio, the engaging in corrupt activity charge means a person engaged in two ore more incidents of corrupt activity that are related to the affairs of the same enterprise, are not isolated, and are not so closely related to each other and connected in time and place that they constitute a single event, according to the Ohio Revised Code.
The other four defendants are:
— Derrian M. Thomas, 19, Colby Avenue, who pleased guilty earlier to 10 low-level felonies, including receiving stolen property, theft and breaking and entering and will be sentenced at 10 a.m. Jan. 19;
— Brandon M. Ogden, 23, Victor Avenue, who pleaded guilty earlier to 15 counts of theft and one of breaking and entering and got two years in prison;
— Derrick L. Thomas, 48, Parkcliffe Avenue, who pleaded guilty to two counts of receiving stolen property and will be sentenced later; and
— Abigail L. Acosta, 23, of Victor Avenue, who pleaded guilty earlier to six counts of receiving stolen property and was sentenced to non-prison sanctions.
During Acosta’s plea hearing, her attorney, Brian Tareshawty, said Acosta was the girlfriend of Adams. He said she was not involved in the thefts, but she “should have left” their apartment when Adams “brought these motorcycles in at 5 in the morning.” They lived together about 18 months.
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