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Man arrested for domestic violence again
By Joe Gorman
YOUNGSTOWN
A man who police said was arrested several times on domestic-violence charges in the past picked up a new charge Saturday.
Curtis Shavers, 41, of West Ravenwood Avenue, is in the Mahoning County jail on no bond, according to jail records Monday, on a felony charge of domestic violence.
He was arrested about 4 p.m. Saturday at a restaurant in the 7300 block of Market Street in Boardman where he was working, reports said.
Reports said police were called to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital, where a woman was receiving stitches.
Reports said the woman told police she and Shavers were arguing earlier Saturday, and as she was taking clothes out of her closet, Shavers knocked her to the ground with an unidentified object.
The woman told police Shavers told her he was going to kill her and her family and burn her house down if she called police, reports said. The woman managed to run to a neighbor’s house where an ambulance was called, and she was taken to the hospital from there, reports said.
Reports said the woman had no broken bones but required stitches in her head, and she had dried blood on her face and hands.
Reports said Shavers told police he had thrown a hairbrush at the woman but did not mean to hit her. Shavers told police he never put his hands on the victim, reports said.
Police reports said Shavers has five previous convictions for domestic violence. Common-pleas court records in Mahoning County show a 2009 conviction for a felony charge of domestic violence and two convictions for domestic violence in Warren Municipal Court in 2013, one for a March 2013 arrest and another for a July 2013 arrest.
Court records from Youngstown Municipal Court were not available Monday.
In the Mahoning County and Warren cases, records show Shavers was sentenced to probation and then had to be brought back to court because he violated probation in all three cases.