Witness intimidation case against Scott Davis moved to grand jury

Youngstown

A witness-intimidation case against Scott Davis, brother of convicted murderer Michael Davis, was bound over to the Mahoning County grand jury.

Scott Davis, 19, of Silliman Street, was in Youngstown Municipal Court on Friday for a preliminary hearing on two counts of felony intimidation.

After hearing testimony from a witness and the Youngstown police detective working on the case, Judge Elizabeth Kobly sent the case to the grand jury.

Davis also is charged with unauthorized use of property, assault, aggravated menacing, resisting arrest and obstruction of official business and is scheduled to appear on those charges Jan. 4 before Judge Robert Milich of Youngstown Municipal Court.

He remains in the Mahoning County jail on $100,000 bond.

Randy Altman testified during the hearing Friday and told Judge Kobly that Davis threatened him and his fiancee Nov. 29, during and immediately after a court hearing in Judge Milich’s courtroom on the aggravated-menacing charge.

Altman, the alleged victim of menacing, said he’d been subpoenaed by the court to attend the hearing. He said that while Davis was sitting in the courtroom, he turned to Altman’s fiancee and mouthed obscenities to her.

“I read his lips,” Altman said. “He said he was going to ‘hurt her.’”

He said Davis also quietly addressed the two of them as he was being escorted out of the courtroom.

“He looked at me and said he was going to [expletive] kill me,” Altman said.

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