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Organizer of illegal ‘bike life’ event pleads guilty to three charges
Published: Tue, April 26, 2016 @ 12:05 a.m.
warren
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WARREN
Trevor Hall, the organizer of a “bike life” event in August that produced criminal charges against Hall and six others, pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of failure to comply with the orders of a police officer and receiving stolen property.
Hall, 22, of Buena Vista Avenue Northeast, is the last of the seven people to plead guilty in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court in the rally.
Sentencing by Judge Peter Kontos will be held later. Hall could get several years in prison or probation.
Hall was seen by police participating in the Aug. 30 ride and was charged a couple of days later. That was the basis for the failure to comply charges. He was charged with receiving stolen property because he was found riding a stolen four-wheeler Aug. 24, prosecutors said.
Hall promoted the Aug. 30 Trumbull County ride on social media, and roughly 70 people arrived to participate, driving off-road four-wheelers and off-road motorcycles on public roads.
Off-road vehicles cannot be legally driven on public streets, police said.
Some of the riders were seen doing “wheelies” and taking up all lanes of travel, including lanes coming in the opposite direction on Youngstown Road, and refusing to stop for police with lights and sirens activated, police said.
A dash-cam video showed some of the participants waving at police and taunting them.
Many of the people charged were apprehended near the Trumbull Career and Technical Center in Champion, where some had parked trailers and trucks used to bring the vehicles to the area.
Six of the seven people indicted were from the Cleveland and Akron areas.
Published: Tue, April 26, 2016 @ 12:05 a.m.
warren
Staff report
WARREN
Trevor Hall, the organizer of a “bike life” event in August that produced criminal charges against Hall and six others, pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of failure to comply with the orders of a police officer and receiving stolen property.
Hall, 22, of Buena Vista Avenue Northeast, is the last of the seven people to plead guilty in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court in the rally.
Sentencing by Judge Peter Kontos will be held later. Hall could get several years in prison or probation.
Hall was seen by police participating in the Aug. 30 ride and was charged a couple of days later. That was the basis for the failure to comply charges. He was charged with receiving stolen property because he was found riding a stolen four-wheeler Aug. 24, prosecutors said.
Hall promoted the Aug. 30 Trumbull County ride on social media, and roughly 70 people arrived to participate, driving off-road four-wheelers and off-road motorcycles on public roads.
Off-road vehicles cannot be legally driven on public streets, police said.
Some of the riders were seen doing “wheelies” and taking up all lanes of travel, including lanes coming in the opposite direction on Youngstown Road, and refusing to stop for police with lights and sirens activated, police said.
A dash-cam video showed some of the participants waving at police and taunting them.
Many of the people charged were apprehended near the Trumbull Career and Technical Center in Champion, where some had parked trailers and trucks used to bring the vehicles to the area.
Six of the seven people indicted were from the Cleveland and Akron areas.
