Four sentenced in county court on variety of charges

Published 12:00 am Friday, January 28, 2005

A Waterloo man who robbed an Ironton gas station will go to prison for seven years as punishment for that crime.

Tommy Ash, 41, of County Road 47, was sentenced Wednesday in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court. Judge Frank McCown sentenced Ash to six years in prison on the aggravated robbery charge and one year for fleeing and eluding the authorities who pursued him after the incident. Those sentences will be served consecutively, in accordance with state law regarding fleeing and eluding convictions, according to information from the office of Lawrence County Prosecutor J.B. Collier Jr.

Ash was arrested July 12 and charged in connection with the hold up of the Gulf Station at 2829 S. Third St.

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Also this week, Leslie Brock, 45, of 1043 County Road 120, pleaded guilty to fourth-degree felony child endangering. McCown sentenced Brock to 90 days in the Lawrence County Jail and four years community controlled sanctions under intensive supervised probation.

Linda Rosebrough, 54, of 2506 S. Fourth St., Ironton, was sentenced to 11 months in prison for violating the terms of her community controlled sanctions.

Rosebrough was sentenced in July 2004

to 90 days in either the Lawrence County Jail or an in-house drug rehabilitation facility and four years community controlled sanctions under intensive supervised probation after she signed a bill of information on a charge of permitting drug abuse.

Earlier this month, court officials said she tested positive for substance abuse. She was arrested in late April and accused of letting two Columbus men deal drugs at her house.

Grady Smith, 24, of 6 Private Drive 2067, Kitts Hill, pleaded guilty to an amended charge of receiving stolen property. He was sentenced to nine months in prison. Smith had originally been charged with burglary. He still faces a charge of rape of a female minor and corrupting another with drugs. A trial on those two remaining charges is scheduled for February.