Expansion of special prosecutor role in Dellick matters approved

Staff Report

YOUNGSTOWN

Mahoning County common pleas judges have agreed to expand the appointment of the state attorney general’s office to handle additional matters involving John Dellick, son of county Juvenile Court Judge Theresa Dellick.

Last month, the court approved county Prosecutor Paul Gains’ request to appoint the Ohio attorney general’s office to handle an original case against John Dellick, 19, of Canfield, involving an aggravated assault charge after a road-rage incident in Canfield Township on Oct. 18. A preliminary hearing is set for 1 p.m. Dec. 16 in county court in Canfield.

Dellick was charged again in early November with menacing after a woman he knows accused him of making threatening comments to her at Youngstown State University. He pleaded innocent, and paid 10 percent of a $20,000 bond to be released to house arrest.

At the time, he already was free on bond for the October assault charge.

The woman in the November incident told university police she was sitting at Wendy’s inside the YSU campus when Dellick threatened to beat up the man sitting with her. She also said Dellick followed her and yelled threats at her.

The same woman filed a police report in July accusing Dellick, her boyfriend at the time, of assaulting her, but she chose not to file charges.

The application for the expanded appointment of special prosecutors states that Canfield city police are contemplating criminal charges in that matter. The girlfriend, then 17, told police she met with Dellick on July 25 in the parking lot of Hilltop Plaza in Canfield after she went out with friends for a boating trip. Dellick became upset over her going on the boating trip and made comments about harming her, she said.

She told police Dellick picked her up, carried her to his Jeep, threw her inside and would not let her leave. Dellick pushed her into the console, choked her, then threw her out, head-first, into the side of her friend’s car, a police report says.