Man set free on serious charges twice now charged with groping woman

Staff report

WARREN

Darryl V. Jackson Jr., 26, of Sweetbrier Street Northwest is in the Trumbull County Jail not eligible to make bond after he was arraigned Monday in Warren Municipal Court on two counts of gross sexual imposition.

A Youngstown woman, 29, told Warren police she was coming down from the attic of a home on Edgewood Street Northeast at 12:30 a.m. April 22 when Jackson grabbed her and pinned her against a wall, then put his hand in her pants and touched her.

She eluded Jackson twice and ran out of the house, she said.

If convicted, he could get three years in prison.

Jackson has been charged twice in the past two years with serious felony offenses. But in both cases, the charges were dismissed.

He was in the Trumbull jail from July 28, 2014, to April 16, 2015, awaiting trial on charges of kidnapping, rape and robbery, but he was released from the jail in April 2015 after the purported victim admitted she had “misrepresented material facts,” according to a filing in the case.

He also was charged in May 2015 with aggravated robbery after a man accused him of robbing him at an automated teller machine in front of Eastwood Mall in Niles.

A video from the bank showed only the purported victim, who also later told police he had lied about the robbery, said Terry Swauger, Niles prosecutor.

Jackson was convicted of aggravated robbery in 2010 and went to prison from March 2010 to December 2014 for it.

He also has a pending drug-possession charge in Warren Municipal Court.