Man arrested for threat served time for beating woman

YOUNGSTOWN — A man arrested early Sunday at a West Side home for threatening to slit a woman’s throat with a hatchet had served five years in prison for beating a woman in 2007.

Billy Mock, 47, was booked into the Mahoning County jail on a misdemeanor charge of domestic violence after police were called to the home of a woman he was staying with in 2300 block of Donald Avenue on the West Side about 1:10 a.m.

In March 2007, a woman told police Mock had locked her inside a home on the West Side and beat her for four days before she managed to escape. The woman said she was beaten with a rubber mallet, a fireplace poker and had dishes and glasses thrown at her and that Mock had destroyed the house. In 2008, he was found not guilty by a jury of kidnapping and one count of felonious assault, but guilty of a second count of felonious assault.

He was sentenced to five years in prison by former Judge Timothy Franken of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court and resentenced in 2010 by Judge Lou D’Apolito after part of his appeal was upheld by the 7th District Court of Appeals.

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