Man sentenced to prison for threatening police officer
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) — A man who pleaded guilty last month to threatening a city police officer was sentenced earlier this week to 18 months in prison.
Peter Levitski, 31, of Youngstown, received the sentence from Judge Maureen Sweeney in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court after entering guilty pleas May 7 to charges of intimidation and ethnic intimidation as well as a third-degree felony charge of domestic violence.
The intimidation charge is a third-degree felony, and the ethnic intimidation charge is a fifth-degree felony. The sentence was recommended by the attorneys in the case and adopted by Judge Sweeney.
Levitski was arrested for domestic violence Dec. 9 — his third domestic violence of the year — after police were called about 10:20 p.m. for a report of a domestic disturbance.
After Levitski was placed in a cruiser and was being driven to the Mahoning County jail, reports said he called the officer who was driving, who is Black, a racial epithet and also called his children racial epithets.
Reports also said Levitski threatened to kill the officer when he got out of jail.
Levitski was charged with felony domestic violence because he had three previous arrests for first-degree misdemeanor domestic violence. In 2023, he pleaded guilty in municipal court to a reduced charge of disorderly conduct and was sentenced to probation and counseling.
He was also arrested on June 1 and June 18 by city police for domestic violence. He pleaded guilty Aug. 12 in both cases and was sentenced to 30 days in jail, placed on probation for a year, and ordered to attend alcohol counseling three times a week.
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