Man arraigned on gun, domestic violence charges
By Joe Gorman
YOUNGSTOWN
A North Side man who told a municipal court magistrate he has been out of prison for just two months is in the Mahoning County jail on a bond of $82,500.
Ian Perry, 36, was arraigned before Magistrate Anthony Sertick on Monday on felony charges of domestic violence, possession of heroin, possession of cocaine and being a felon in possession of a firearm as well as a misdeameanor count of possession of drug paraphernalia.
Police were called to a home in the first block of Tod Lane about 4:25 p.m. Friday for a report of a fight between a man and a woman. They found a woman who had blood on her when they arrived.
Reports said Perry’s shirt had blood on it and police found two bags of heroin and a bag of crack cocaine in his pockets, which he claimed were planted by the woman, who is his girlfriend. The woman told police where Perry had hidden a gun, and police found an unloaded handgun and a digital scale in the home, reports said.
In court, Perry asked for a court-appointed lawyer and said he had no job and no means of support. Magistrate Sertick asked how a man with no job could have $770 in cash on him when arrested.
“For a guy without a job, $770 seems like a lot of money,” Sertick said.
Perry said the money was his girlfriend’s and his mother’s. He said he was paying his girlfriend back money he owed her. The report said the two were arguing over money, and Perry punched his girlfriend in the face five times after she dropped money he had given her.
Perry said he is broke and cannot hire a lawyer.
“I really don’t have the money, your Honor,” Perry said. “I’ve only been out of prison for two months.”
An attorney was appointed for Perry, who has prior convictions for drug trafficking.
Records from Mahoning County Common Pleas Court show Perry was sentenced to a year in prison last March on a drug-trafficking charge.