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Boardman woman indicted on rape charges

YOUNGSTOWN — Jordan C. Holt, 20, of Washington Boulevard in Boardman, was indicted Thursday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court on two counts of rape. The charges relate to Boardman police being called to St. Elizabeth Boardman Hospital Feb. 14 for a report of a sexual assault and learning of allegations from a woman.

The alleged victim said she and her roommate, a man, were drinking with Holt, who the report identified as a woman, the night before at their apartment. She told police she remembered a loud verbal argument with Holt, then waking up nude and suffering from soreness and bleeding in sensitive areas. The report states police also noted bruising on the woman’s wrists and neck.

The report states the alleged victim’s roommate told police Holt made repeated sexual advances toward him that night as well, and tried to pull his pants off. He said he exited the apartment to sit in his vehicle to avoid her.

He told police that when he returned to the apartment, it was “in complete disarray” with broken glass on the kitchen floor and blood in the bathroom, and the two women were standing in the kitchen drinking and yelling at each other. The man told police he went to bed to avoid the situation.

The man told police that several minutes later, he heard Holt on the phone with someone telling the person that she was having sex with his roommate, then he heard the two women yelling at each other again.

The report states he told police he opened his bedroom door and saw Holt restraining the alleged victim. He said he then heard Holt trying to console the alleged victim, and speaking softly to her, but Holt was then on the phone with another friend.

The report states the man told police he heard glass breaking in the kitchen, and more yelling, and he considered calling police. The man told police he heard Holt calling the woman vulgar names, and he believed Holt was raping her. He said he heard Holt telling the alleged victim, in vulgar terms, to let Holt have sex with her.

The man told police he did not intervene because he recently had surgery, which limited his upper-body mobility and made him weak, and he was afraid he would not be able to defend himself if Holt assaulted him.

The man also told police he opened the door a while later to find the two women passed out on top of one another, the report states.

Holt has been in the Mahoning County jail since Feb. 15. She made an initial appearance in Mahoning County Area Court in Boardman Feb. 18 and waived her right to a preliminary hearing in that court Feb. 25. Judge Joseph Houser bound the case over to a county grand jury. If Holt is convicted, she could get more than 20 years in prison.

Others indicted Thursday are:

* James H. Dilley, 46, Homeworth Road, Alliance, operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol, a drug of abuse or a combination of them — OVI.

• Alfonda R. Madison, 38, South Brockway Avenue, two counts of violating a protection order and one count of misdemeanor aggravated menacing.

• Maurice A. Briggs, 40, East Judson Avenue, strangulation and misdemeanor assault and aggravated menacing.

• Benjamin Vazquez, 24, Mahoning County jail, failure to comply with an order of a police officer, improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle and cocaine possession.

• Lawrence M. Mitchum, 62, Dickson Avenue, cocaine possession and receiving stolen property.

• Martin Eberth IV, 46, Mahoning County jail, two counts of operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol, a drug of abuse or a combination of them — OVI.

• Zachary T. Wilson, 34, Hoagland Blackstub Road, Cortland, domestic violence.

• Shainne M. Lewis, 25, West Water Street, Lowellville, strangulation and misdemeanor domestic violence.

* David Hill, 74, East Auburndale Avenue, cocaine possession.

• Patricia Morton, 67, homeless, cocaine possession.

• William Duncan, 70, Norwood Avenue, fentanyl-related compound possession.

• June Rushton, 24, Palmer Avenue, aggravated drug possession and cocaine possession.

• Lawrence A. Newell III, 25, Idlewood Drive, Austintown, failure to comply with an order of a police officer, identity fraud, obstructing official business and misdemeanor resisting arrest.

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