Inmates convicted in two Trumbull County cases up for parole

Two inmates convicted in two different Trumbull County cases are both up for parole.

According to the Trumbull County Prosecutor's Office, 50-year-old Leon Stubbs (pictured above on right) is up for parole in May and 61-year-old Gregory Click (pictured above on left) is up for parole in June.

Stubbs was sentenced to 33 years to life in prison back in September of 1993 for the 1992 murder of Anthony Borden, who was found shot to death next to his vehicle in a parking lot in Howland.

Prosecutors say Stubbs and co-defendant Rickey Alexander were ingesting drugs and planning a robbery in an abandoned parking lot when Borden pulled into the lot.

Alexander tried to sell Borden fake drugs and pulled out a gun and shot him when he refused to pay. Prosecutors say Stubbs provided the gun to Alexander.

Borden was able to drive away, but Stubbs and Alexander chased him into another parking lot where Borden continued to refuse to pay. That's when Alexander shot him two more times and stole $260 from his wallet.

Alexander then gave Stubbs his gun back along with $50 from the robbery.

Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins says Stubbs has had nearly 100 infractions for violations of prison regulations including multiple disturbances, lying to corrections officers, failure to follow orders and misuse of medications.

Watkins highlighted one incident in 2023 where Stubbs was found with a balloon in his throat containing 10 Percocet pills.

"This guy is still a time bomb, a balloon swallower with 10 Percocets and no prescription. This man needs to stay in prison," Watkins said.

Meanwhile, Click was sentenced in 1994 to 13 to 65 years in prison for attempted aggravated murder, attempted rape, aggravated robbery, aggravated burglary and theft.

In August of 1994, prosecutors say Click beat a woman idenfitied as Edna Porturica so severely that her head was "swollen to the size of a basketball."

Porturica was found on her bedroom floor clutching her dog whose fur was matted due to all the blood that flowed from her from the beating. That dog later had to be euthanized because of seizures caused from the trauma of the night of the beating.

As for Porturica, Watkins says she lived for three more years, but was bedridden, needed 24-hour care and never talked again.

As for Click, Watkins says he has continued his criminal ways in prison violating various rules specifically pointing to one instance in 2020 when Click had been doing Methamphetamine all weekend long.

"Click has not, and in our opinion, will not ever respect the rights of others. This man's penchant for violence is off the Richter scale," Watkins said.