Campbell man charged with rape

Staff report

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A city man was bound over to a Mahoning County grand jury Friday on a charge of rape.

John Garlinger, 59, of Andrews Avenue, was in the Mahoning County jail in lieu of a $300,000 cash bond.

He is also charged with aggravated menacing, a first-degree misdemeanor.

He received 60 days in jail from Campbell Municipal Court on that charge, with credit for 22 days served. His fines and costs were suspended because of indigency, the city clerk of courts office said. A charge of obstruction of official business was dismissed.

Police were called Oct. 22 to a home on Chambers Street, where they took a report of a sexual assault from a 24-year-old woman.

The woman told police he assaulted her when she tried to get him to stop fondling her.

Police said that when they went to Garlinger’s residence, he was uncooperative, telling them, “I’ll take your heads off,” then eventually meeting them in the door with a kitchen knife in one hand and a crowbar in the other, a police report says.

After police drew their guns, he put down the knife and crowbar but still wouldn’t cooperate with the arrest, the report says.

The rape charge is a first-degree felony.