Sentencing set for March 30 for domestic violence

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Phillip Anderson, 20, of Woodcrest Avenue, could spend up to 61/2 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges related to a domestic-violence episode at his home in 2010.

In December, a Mahoning County grand jury indicted Anderson on charges of domestic violence, kidnapping and abduction.

Anderson, in a plea agreement with prosecutors reached Wednesday, pleaded guilty to domestic violence and abduction charges. The kidnapping charge was dismissed.

Anderson will be sentenced March 30 in the courtroom of Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court. He faces up to five years on the abduction charge and up to 18 months on the domestic-violence charge.

Carla Baldwin Fields, an assistant county prosecutor, said Anderson invited the mother of his children to his East Side home, and the adults got into a physical altercation last year.

She said the woman called police, but Anderson refused to let the woman leave an area of the home once police arrived.

“This was a domestic fight where she got away from him at some point and called police,” Baldwin-Fields said.