John Dellick, 20, set for plea hearing

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

John T. Dellick, son of Judge Theresa Dellick of Mahoning County Juvenile Court, is scheduled for a plea hearing before a visiting judge at 2 p.m. Tuesday in his criminal case in common pleas court.

John Dellick, 20, of Spring Lake Lane, Canfield, will appear before Visiting Judge Michael K. Nunner.

The county grand jury indicted Dellick on Jan. 16 on felonious assault, ethnic intimidation and aggravated menacing charges pertaining to an Oct. 18, 2013, incident; and on kidnapping, abduction and assault charges pertaining to a July 25, 2013, incident involving a different purported victim.

Dellick initially pleaded innocent to the charges.

In September, Judge Nunner set two separate jury-trial dates, one for each incident, for Dec. 8, 2014, and Jan. 12, 2015.

In the October 2013 altercation, Dellick is accused of ramming a man’s car, throwing a bottle at the man and his wife and yelling racial slurs at them in a road-rage incident in Canfield.

In the July 2013 incident, Dellick is accused of picking up his girlfriend, carrying her to his Jeep and throwing her head-first into the vehicle at a Canfield plaza where they had agreed to meet.

The case is being prosecuted by Micah R. Ault and Brian S. Deckert, assistant Ohio attorneys general.

Dellick’s lawyer, Samuel G. Amendolara, could not be reached to comment.

A spokesman for the attorney general’s office declined to comment on any potential plea deal in advance of the hearing.