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Man arrested for threat served time for beating woman
By Joe Gorman
YOUNGSTOWN
A man arrested Sunday at a West Side home after being accused of 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 the 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 and 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.
On Sunday, police were called to the home for a fight, and the woman said Mock threatened to slit her throat when she said she was calling police after he threatened to kick her in the face.
Reports said Mock was very drunk and he denied the allegations, saying the woman was on medication and making things up.
At his arraignment Monday via video hookup before Magistrate Anthony Sertick in municipal court, Mock said the woman’s accusations were “all lies and bogus stuff.” He asked for a recognizance bond so he could get out of jail and not lose his job.
Assistant City Prosecutor Shelli Freeze told Sertick that police found a hatchet in the home.
Sertick said because of his past record, a recognizance bond was out of the question. He gave Mock a $5,000, 10-percent bond. He also has a no-contact order barring him from the home or any contact with the woman.