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Man accused of vicious attack, rape of acquaintance
YOUNGSTOWN
A city man is in the Mahoning County jail on a $750,000 bond after what police describe as a vicious attack on a female acquaintance during a jealous rage.
Sanjuan Smith, 42, of Almyra Avenue, has been charged with rape, kidnapping and felonious assault.
He was arraigned on those charges earlier this week and given a bond of $250,000 on each charge.
Smith is due to appear before Judge Elizabeth Kobly of Youngstown Municipal Court Tuesday for a preliminary hearing.
Smith was arrested Saturday 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 at 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 cell phone 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.
Officers noted that the woman said she could hear officers during the police interview but could not see them because of the extent of her injuries.
Police took photos of the woman and the home where the alleged attack took place noting blood on the floor and a large hole in one of the walls.
Police also collected clothes that had been scattered around the home.
County court records show that Smith pleaded guilty to assault in 2002 and was sentenced to six months in the county jail.
He was later charged with, and pleaded guilty to, felonious assault in 2008 and was sentenced to two years in prison.
Smith was also sentenced to prison for possession of cocaine in 2008.
He was arrested and charged with domestic violence earlier this year.