YOUNGSTOWN — Damaris T. Grant, 43, was indicted Thursday on eight counts of rape, four counts of sexual battery, three counts of pandering sexually oriented matter involving a minor or impaired person and five counts of child endangering.

Grant is alleged to have sexually assaulted a young girl and taken inappropriate pictures of her, according to prosecutors. If convicted, he could get about 80 years in prison. The matter was investigated by the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office.

He has been in the Mahoning County jail since April 17 on a charge of pandering obscenity involving a minor and drug possession.

He was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service, according to Mahoning County jail records.

A pandering charge was filed in Youngstown Municipal Court against Grant on March 29 by the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office. The offense was alleged to have been committed March 28, according to Youngstown Municipal Court records.

That charge was bound over to a Mahoning County grand jury April 26.

Grant was charged separately by Youngstown police April 18 with felony drug possession and felony possession of a fentanyl-related compound. Those charges also were bound over to a grand jury April 26.

He was indicted on those charges May 9, and that case is still pending.

He was sentenced to three years in prison in July 2014 in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court on two convictions for trafficking in heroin, according to court records. He lived in Youngstown at the time. His address is currently listed as the Mahoning County jail.

ASSAULT CASE

Also indicted Thursday was Craig Washington, 31, of Hunter Avenue on felonious assault and domestic violence charges in an April 20 incident on Commerce Street downtown in which he is accused of injuring a woman with his car.

According to a Youngstown police report, officers about 1 a.m. observed a silver car in the parking lot of the Circle Hookah and Bar on West Federal Street driving in reverse very quickly with a woman standing at the driver’s side window.

The vehicle stopped and then accelerated rapidly out of the parking lot with the woman still holding onto the driver’s side door, the report states.

The vehicle was swerving and driving off of the road, “leading the female to be thrown from the vehicle in the middle of the street,” the police report states. The vehicle then turned onto Hazel Street from Commerce.

The officers pulled over the car and arrested Washington, who was the driver. He was charged with domestic violence because he and the injured woman have children together, the report states. He was taken to the Mahoning County jail.

The woman was taken to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital for treatment. The city’s surveillance cameras on Commerce Street captured the incident, the report notes.

Others indicted Thursday are:

● Alexa C. Hudson, 26, Tulane Avenue, Austintown, telecommunications harassment.

● Daniel M. Dillon, 47, East Walnut Street, Lowellville, drug possession.

● Kalee S. Lasher, 35, Indian Trail, Poland, obstructing official business, misdemeanor theft and resisting arrest.

● Shawn K. Booth, 51, Bigham Road, Batavia, Ohio, receiving stolen property and obstructing official business.

● Naeem S. McKinley, 29, Matta Avenue, unlawful transactions in weapons.

● Dylan J. Mastronikolas, 19, North Dunlap Avenue, unlawful transactions in weapons.

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