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Two inmates indicted for Ohio hostage situation

Richard Ware and Kevin Johns were both indicted by a grand jury

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Kevin Johns and Richard Ware.

Photo Trumbull County Jail

By C1 Staff

WARREN – Two of the inmates involved in last April’s hostage situation have been indicted in connection with the incident.

WFMJ reports that Richard Ware and Kevin Johns were both indicted by a grand jury.

Johns was originally serving28 years for kidnapping, and Ware was serving time for robbery.

They and a third inmate, David Martin, took a corrections officer hostage at knife point inside the Trumbull County Jail in April.

Both men now face charges of kidnapping, aggravated robbery, possession of a deadly weapon, felonious assault and aiding an escape.

Martin was sentenced to death in September for the 2012 murder of Jeremy Cole.