YOUNGSTOWN — Joshua W. Johnston, 36, who allegedly failed to yield the right of way while crossing State Route 82 in Vienna on Nov. 10, resulting in a collision that killed a passenger and seriously injuring another, was scheduled for sentencing last week on a separate burglary and other charges.

Johnston’s sentencing is now set for 9 a.m. Dec. 3 before Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge R. Scott Krichbaum. Johnston pleaded guilty Sept. 26 to three felonies for an episode at his ex-girlfriend’s home in Beloit — burglary, stalking and obstructing official business, according to court documents. His plea deal calls for him to serve a year in prison.

A Smith Township police report states officers were called to a home on Dogwood Drive in Beloit, just east of Sebring, at 10:01 p.m., June 3, for an active burglary. When a Smith Township police officer arrived, she was advised that the suspect was inside a vehicle attempting to leave the area.

The suspect “did not stop” when a Sebring officer approached him in his cruiser, the report said. The suspect then drove around the Smith Township officer’s vehicle, despite the officer activating a horn and yelling for the suspect to stop, the report said. The driver pulled into a yard and continued traveling on Sebring Lake Estates, although the two officers were able to arrest the suspect a short time later.

The Smith Township officer took cigarettes and a lighter from the suspect and placed them on the roof of the suspect’s car, but the man then went inside the car and refused to show his hands, the report said. The Smith Township officer pulled the man from the car and the two officers were able to handcuff the man, identified as Johnston, the report said.

The resident of the home told officers that Johnston was her ex-boyfriend. He lived with her until he moved out a week earlier, she said. He removed all her belongings and gave her the key because she owned the property, she said.

Johnston had been harassing and stalking her since they broke up a few weeks earlier, she said. He called her phone more than 50 times, and she reported the calls to the Columbiana Police Department because she was in Columbiana at the time, she said.

On the evening of Johnston’s arrest, he came to her house and kept pestering her to talk to him. When she refused, he kept trying to find a way into the house, she said. She called 911. Suddenly, she saw Johnston in the house and didn’t know how he got in. A second woman was also in the house.

An officer then checked the property and found a side door had been forced open. Johnston, who has an East South Range Road address in North Lima in court documents, was taken to the Mahoning County Jail.

In the Nov. 10 crash, Johnston was driving south on Warner Road in Vienna at 8:13 p.m. when he failed to yield the right of way while entering State Route 82, the highway patrol said in a news release . His car was hit on the passenger side by another car traveling eastbound on Route 82, the news release said.

A passenger in Johnston’s car, Miranda Zullo, 35, of Youngstown, was killed, and a second passenger, a juvenile, was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, according to communicated. Johnston suffered non-life-threatening injuries and the driver of the other car suffered minor injuries, according to the State Patrol, which is investigating the crash.

None of the people in Johnston’s car were wearing seat belts. Johnston has an extensive history of seat belt violations in Mahoning County dating from 2009 to 2022, most of which were issued by troopers from the Canfield Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol, according to court records.