Boardman man arrested on warrant after domestic incident

Staff report

BOARDMAN

A call about a domestic-violence incident led to an arrest on a state warrant on an escape charge.

Township police responded to an apartment on Applecrest Court on Tuesday where a victim reported that her 4-year-old child’s father, Calvin Shelton, 25, also of Applecrest Court, threatened to stab her and then slashed her tires. Shelton then fled the scene.

The victim reported to police that after the two argued because she would not give Shelton her car keys, he threatened her, grabbed a kitchen knife and held it up to her face, hit and broke a door frame and then slashed all four tires on a relative’s car.

When police found Shelton near Moyer Avenue, they discovered that Shelton had a warrant out of Mahoning County for escape, a second-degree felony charge. In addition to the warrant charge, they arrested him on misdemeanor charges of domestic violence, criminal damaging and theft. He also faces a fifth-degree felony charge of vandalism.

A state warrant says that Shelton was sentenced to 5.25 years in prison after he was convicted of aggravated robbery, aggravated burglary, firearms in a motor vehicle and kidnapping.

Shelton was indicted on the escape charge in January after he reportedly violated the conditions of his parole. He was released on parole last July from the Marion Correctional Institution, according to the warrant.

Shelton is in the Mahoning County jail. He is scheduled to appear today in Mahoning County Area Court.