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YPD: Man arrested after chasing girlfriend into store
By Joe Gorman
YOUNGSTOWN
A man who reports said forced his way into an East Side store Thursday afternoon to beat his girlfriend, who was running from him, was arraigned Friday in municipal court on a domestic-violence charge.
Magistrate Anthony Sertick set bond at $5,000 for Adam McLane, 24, of Kenneth Street, for the charge, which is a first-degree misdemeanor.
Police were called about 2:32 p.m. Thursday for a fight in the 1600 block of Lansdowne Boulevard, and when they arrived, they found a man, later identified as McLane, and a woman fighting in the intersection of Lansdowne Boulevard and Atkinson Avenue. Officers separated the two and placed McLane in the back of a cruiser.
The woman told police that McLane, who is the father of her son, was assaulting her nearby and she ran into a 1721 Lansdowne Blvd. market and tried to hold the doors shut so McLane could not get inside. However, McLane forced his way in, threw the woman on the ground and began beating her. An employee in the store managed to get McLane off the victim, and she ran away, with McLane now chasing her in a car with their son in the back seat, reports said.
McLane caught up to the victim at Atkinson Avenue, got out of the car, and began beating her again until police showed up, reports said.
Reports said the victim had redness and swelling on the side of her face and cuts on her hands.
In 2013, McLane pleaded no contest and was found guilty in municipal court for a fourth-degree misdemeanor domestic violence against the same victim, and a misdemeanor count of criminal trespass, court records show. He was sentenced to 15 days in jail and given credit for 15 days’ time served and placed on a year’s probation and ordered to attend an anger- management class.
However, he was arrested on a probation violation when he was charged with a first-degree misdemeanor count of child endangering just months later. He also pleaded no contest in that case, was found guilty and given credit for 48 days served on electronically monitored house arrest and ordered to attend a parenting class.
Because of the probation violation, McLane’s probation in the domestic violence was extended to June 2015, court records show.
Sertick also ordered McLane to have no contact with the victim.