Staff photo / Ed Runyan
Angel Rosario Martinez, 46, center, listens as a translator assists him during his plea hearing Thursday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court. His attorney is Mark Lavelle.

YOUNGSTOWN — Angel Rosario Martinez, 46, pleaded guilty Thursday to robbery and two other charges in a Sept. 20 incident in Youngstown and got a recommendation from prosecutors of four to six years in prison.

Judge John Durkin of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court accepted Martinez’s guilty pleas to a high-level felony robbery, plus theft from a person in a protected class and grand theft of a motor vehicle.

He will sentence Martinez at 11 a.m. April 1. Mark Lavelle, attorney for Martinez, will argue for less than four to six years in prison.

The robbery charge alleged that Martinez did, while committing a theft offense of the purse and phone, or in fleeing immediately afterward, “inflict or attempt to inflict, or threaten to inflict physical harm on the woman. The theft from a person in a protected class also involved the female victim, Martinez’s indictment states.

A Youngstown police report states that the incident was reported as a man getting into the victim’s car and driving away at 11:16 a.m. in the 3300 block of Fremont Avenue on the West Side.

When an officer arrived, the victim and his grandson said they watched a male ride up onto the driveway on a bicycle and pull on all of the car’s doors.

One of the males was at his house next door when this was happening. He yelled at the suspect to get away from the car, but the male got in and drove away south on Meridian Road.

The suspect had long, curly hair and “appeared to be high on something,” one of the males said. The owner of the car had left the 2005 Chevy Avalanche running in the driveway, the report states. The suspect left his bicycle behind.

While the officer was completing his investigation, he learned that two other officers were in the area of Canfield Road and Sunnybrook Drive not far away investigating the theft of a purse and cell phone from a woman.

One of the officers was speaking to the victim’s son, who said he was “pinging” the stolen cell phone, and it was in the Canfield Road and Sunnybrook area. The officers observed a male with dark, curly hair walking at Canfield Road at South Schenley Avenue, the report states.

The two officers tried to make contact with the male, but he ran into the woods behind a nursing home on Canfield Road. The third officer saw the male running into the parking lot of St. Christine School on South Schenley Avenue.

Another officer saw the male in the parking lot close to the school’s front door pulling items out of his pockets and throwing them onto the ground, the report states. The final officer was able to make the arrest.

Officers saw a cell phone with flowers on it that the male, later identified as Martinez, had pulled out of his pocket, the report states. The phone belonged to the victim of the purse and phone theft, the report states.

Detectives and crime scene investigators came to the scene to investigate.

The report notes that another Youngstown officer had been in the area of Canfield Road and South Meridian when he saw a silver 2005 Avalanche in the rear parking lot of Walgreens with the keys in the tailgate of the vehicle. It was processed by the crime lab and towed by police. The owner of the Avalanche identified Martinez from a photo lineup as the person who stole the Avalanche, the report states.