WARREN — A 72-year-old Trumbull County inmate convicted of murder will remain behind bars for at least five more years after the Ohio Parole Board rejected his latest bid for release.

The Trumbull County Prosecutor’s Office announced Monday that Pompie Junior Wade, who is incarcerated at Marion Correctional Institution, is serving a 20-years-to-life sentence for the 1975 murder of Dominic Chiarella, 51, and the attempted murder of Fred G. Piersol, 23, during an armed robbery at the Austin Village Beverage Center in Warren. His next parole hearing is scheduled for June 2030, according to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.

Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins, who was part of the trial team that convicted Wade in 1976, praised the parole board’s decision.

Wade’s mo

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