Grand jury indicts man in attack on woman

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

A Mahoning County grand jury has handed up a five-count indictment against a city man after what police describe as a vicious attack on a female acquaintance during a jealous rage.

Sanjuan Smith, 42, of Almyra Avenue, has been indicted on two counts of rape, two counts of kidnapping and felonious assault.

He has been in the Mahoning County jail on a $750,000 bond since his arrest earlier this month.

Smith was arrested after a 28-year-old female showed up at the downtown police station badly beaten and asking officers for help.

Police went to the woman’s Market Street home about 8 a.m. and found Smith sleeping inside.

The woman told police Smith came to her home Friday and the couple engaged in consensual sex, but Smith became enraged when he looked in her cellphone and found names and text messages from other men.

According to police reports, Smith attacked the woman, striking her multiple times.

The woman said Smith made her perform various sex acts against her will, then urinated on her and refused to let her leave the home.

The woman said she ran out of the home and to the police station after Smith went to sleep.