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May
Local man sentenced to federal prison for sex crimes
by: Joe Gorman
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) — A Cambridge Avenue man was sentenced Tuesday to over 21 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to sex crimes.
Andrew Strickland, 27, received a sentence of 262 months in prison from U.S. Judge Patricia Gaughan in the U.S. Northern District Court of Ohio on a charge of sexual exploitation.
Strickland pleaded guilty in December to the charge.
The charges stem from an investigation that began in July 2019 after a then 16-year-old girl in Farmdale said that Strickland had coerced her into performing a sex act