Man arraigned on domestic violence charge

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

An Edgar Avenue man who reports said told police he threw a woman up the stairs Tuesday evening is in the Mahoning County jail on a domestic-violence charge.

Mark Hollinshead, 50, had yet to be arraigned on the charge Wednesday but he was still in the jail late Wednesday afternoon, according to jail records.

Reports said officers Travis Kis and Chase Lemke were called about 7:15 p.m. Tuesday to Hollinshead’s home in the 2900 block of Edgar Avenue for a report of a fight and while they were on their way they were told a woman was in an upstairs bedroom.

Reports said when the officers arrived they could see the woman looking out an upstairs window and she tried to come downstairs, but Hollinshead ordered her back up the stairs.

The officers then demanded that Hollinshead open the door. Reports said he was hesitant at first but he later did open the door.

Once inside, the officers separated Hollinshead and the woman. Reports said the woman told officers Hollinshead had come home drunk and he became angry at her and ordered her upstairs, then dragged her upstairs by the hair.

Reports said the woman told police Hollinshead also hit her in the back of the head.

Hollinshead told police he threw the woman upstairs and he was upset with the way she spent money he gave her, reports said.