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3 0 - 0 8 - 2 0 0 4 Lafayette resident guilty on 10 counts
By CHAD BUTERBAUGH MEDINA — Three hours of deliberation led to 10 guilty verdicts for 28-year-old George E. Trikilis Friday night when a jury returned its findings about 8:05. Trikilis, of 5796 Chippewa Road, Lafayette Township, faces up to 33 years in prison on 10 counts: felonious assault, assault, burglary, intimidation, telecommunications harassment, complicity to commit trafficking marijuana and two counts each of trafficking marijuana and trafficking anabolic steroids. The charges stem from a series of events between November 2002 and February of this year. Visiting Common Pleas Judge Thomas Patrick Curran will sentence Trikilis on Sept. 13. Curran was contacted to hear the case after Medina County common pleas judges James L. Kimbler and Christopher J. Collier recused themselves. Trikilis, who represented himself with the aid of attorney Jim Ciccolini, maintained throughout the trial the Medina County justice system has allied itself against him and his family for years. County Assistant Prose-cutor Scott Salisbury refuted that argument, focusing instead on the actions that led to Trikilis' indictments. Salisbury asserted Trikilis was taking advantage of the justice system with his allegations of conspiracy. "It sickens me when a defendant tries to impugn the entire system, like he's doing," he told the jury during closing arguments. As Ciccolini presented his closing argument, Trikilis continuously interrupted. Curran ordered him removed from the courtroom when he swore in protestation to one of Ciccolini's points. "I'm not resisting, I'm not resisting," Trikilis repeated as deputies led him away. All five drug charges relate to sales Trikilis made to an undercover agent of the Medina County Drug Task Force between November 2002 and February 2003. The intimidation and telecommunications harassment charges relate to phone calls Trikilis made to the task force office between Feb. 11 and 12. On Feb. 14, police arrested Trikilis on a burglary charge after he walked unannounced into the garage of a federal agent in Lafayette Township as the agent was cleaning his van. Trikilis was jailed for that offense but had to be further restrained because he was damaging his cell. When corrections officers attempted to secure him, however, an altercation ensued that resulted in two officers being sent to the hospital, one with a broken bone in his face. When he took the stand Friday, Trikilis said he was attacked first, but the officers involved testified he charged at them when they opened his cell door. This week's trial ended after five days of proceedings, but investigators are still at work as a result of a carrier bag that appeared in the courtroom Thursday. While the owner of the bag has not yet been determined, its contents — syringes, medical vials and prescription drug canisters — are being tested, sheriff's Sgt. Don Boone said. Boone said he noticed the bag under defense counsel's table during testimony Thursday and placed it aside until the day's proceedings were over. Checkpoints at the county courthouse are not equipped to detect drugs, he said. |
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[Definitie:] "An ergogenic aid is any substance or phenomenon that enhances performance."
(Wilmore and Costill) 
