Thursday, June 26, 2014
WARREN
Christopher Dellick could get up to 9 1/2 years in prison after a jury in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court found him guilty of felonious assault and trespassing into a habitation.
The jury said the Howland man was not guilty of kidnapping or abducting his wife from their Clearview Drive home in Champion last October, but it apparently believed he cut her leg before driving her to Bristol Township in a failed attempt to pick up their daughter.
Dellick, 36, will be sentenced July 15 in the courtroom of Judge Andrew Logan. He could get as little as two years in prison.
Dellick, who graduated from Howland High School and later served in the military, stood fairly still while the two guilty verdicts were read; his wife, Rebecca, held her head in her hands.
The two told vastly different stories of what happened that afternoon — with Rebecca saying Christopher choked her unconscious three times, then cut her leg while wearing gloves and put the knife in her hands so her DNA would be on it.
Christopher said he came home and found his wife in the bathtub barely conscious with a knife wound to her thigh and stopped the flow of blood with a towel.
After that, he says he took his wife to Bristol Township to retrieve their daughter because Rebecca insisted.