07-05-2025
Man who threatened, hurled racial slurs at YPD officer enters guilty pleas in court
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) — A man who reports said threatened to kill a city police and insulted the race of the officer and his children pleaded guilty Wednesday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court to charges of intimidation and ethnic intimidation.
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In addition to those pleas, Peter Levitski, 31, of Youngstown, also pleaded guilty before Judge Maureen Sweeney to a third-degree felony charge of domestic violence.
Sentencing will take place following a presentence investigation.
The intimidation charge is a third-degree felony, and the ethnic intimidation charge is a fifth-degree felony.
The attorneys in the case are recommending a sentence of 18 months in prison. Levitski remains free on bond pending his sentencing.
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 name and also called his children racial names.
Reports also said Levitski also 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 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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