Boardman man facing misdemeanor charges

By Denise Dick

Staff report

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An Oregon Trail man faces several misdemeanor charges, accused of threatening the mother of his child and struggling with police.

Rodney Aey, 44, is charged with domestic violence, resisting arrest and two counts of menacing. He was in the Mahoning County jail.

About 2 p.m. Tuesday, police escorted a woman and her child to Aey’s Oregon Trail home for the child’s visitation with Aey, her father.

The woman called for a police escort because she believed Aey was intoxicated, a police report said. After speaking with Aey, the woman told police she wouldn’t be leaving her daughter with him.

Aey became angry, the report said, and told one of the officers that the officer would be out of a job.

The woman then said that as she was walking away, Aey made a hand gesture like he was firing a gun, and she took that as a threat. The woman said she wanted to pursue a domestic- violence charge.

As officers walked toward Aey, he brought a pit bull from his house on a leash. When officers told him he was under arrest and to return the dog to the house, he swore at them, telling them to get off his property, police said.

An officer held a gun on the dog, concerned that Aey might release it, and Aey returned to the back door and tried to enter his house.

Aey struggled with police, who then used a Taser to subdue him.

Once in the cruiser, Aey acted as if he were ill, and when an officer opened the car door, Aey tried to get out of the car and again threatened the arresting officers, the report said.

The officer used the Taser again to get Aey into the cruiser.