Man sentenced to 7 years for assault

YOUNGSTOWN -- A city man recently retried on charges of kidnapping, beating and raping his former girlfriend will spend 17 fewer years in prison.
Judge Maureen A. Cronin of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court sentenced Alonzo J. Green, 31, Wednesday to seven years in prison after a jury found him guilty of felonious assault in November. Green will receive four and a half years' credit for time served.
Green pleaded guilty in 2001 to attempted rape, felonious assault and kidnapping, and in 2002 Judge Cronin sentenced him to 24 years in prison, nine years more than the 15 years prosecutors recommended. The 7th District Court of Appeals, however, overturned Green's plea and sentence in 2004 and remanded the case back to Judge Cronin for trial. Last month, the jury found Green innocent of kidnapping and rape charges.
Green shared an apartment in Salem with the woman in 2001. Prosecutors said Green drove her to an abandoned building in Youngstown, where he held her captive for several days, raped her and severely beat her before leaving her at St. Elizabeth Health Center.
Green testified that they argued and fought at their apartment, and he wanted to break off the relationship. She was injured in a fight at a Youngstown house with several women, he said. They drove around Youngstown, slept in a car and shared a room in a motel on Belmont Avenue in Liberty Township, he said.