YOUNGSTOWN – An East Cleveland man appeared in a Youngstown courtroom Wednesday after being indicted by a federal grand jury accusing him of possessing a deadly biological agent.
Thirty-four-year-old Brandon Baxter was still being held in the Mahoning County Jail early Thursday after pleading “not guilty” in U.S. District Court to charges of prohibitions with respect to biological weapons and possession of a biological toxin by a restricted person.
After Baxter waived a detention hearing, Magistrate Jonathan Greenberg appointed a public defender and turned him over to the custody of U.S. Marshals…