Two indicted for separate assaults on federal agents

Staff report

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A federal grand jury has indicted two people in separate incidents in which federal law-enforcement personnel were assaulted.

Rochelle Johnson, 41, of Youngstown, was indicted in an assault on a deputy U.S. marshal on Oct. 2 while the marshal was serving an arrest warrant at her home.

Reports said Johnson stood in the doorway and would not allow a marshal to enter to take her son into custody. The marshal warned her she could be arrested if she did not get out of the way, and she then allowed him inside, reports said.

When another marshal tried to handcuff her son, Johnson pushed her way past the first marshal and she was warned again, reports said.

Her son would not allow himself to be handcuffed, and he had to be taken to the ground. She then pulled away and was told she would be arrested, reports said, but when the marshal tried to re-enter the home to handcuff her, she slammed the door on his hand.

The marshal then struggled with the mother with one hand until another marshal came inside the home and used his stun weapon on her. She was in federal custody but released two days later.

Also indicted is Dominic Times, 29, in an assault on a corrections officer at the federal prison in Elkton in Columbiana County on Jan. 13. His indictment accuses him of pushing a guard at the prison, but gives no other details.