Trumbull grand jury indicts Austintown man on sex assault charges

WARREN — The Austintown man accused of sexually assaulting young women while working at Big Daddy’s Drive Thru on Niles-Cortland Road in Howland has been indicted by a Trumbull County grand jury on two counts of gross sexual imposition.

Imad M. Elsayed, 43, of Deer Creek Court, could get up to three years in prison if convicted on the charges.

Elsayed was released from county jail on bond April 2 after getting arrested for the second time in just over a month for allegedly assaulting young, female customers of the business.

Elsayed is acccused of reaching through the window of a 19-year-old Cortland woman’s car and groping her when he returned to her car with merchandise.

He also is accused of telling a 19-year-old Vienna woman to get out of her car and get her cigarettes in the office, where he sexually assaulted her, said Detective Nick Roberts of the Howland Police Department.

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