WARREN – A Trumbull County grand jury declined to indict John White, who filed to run for Youngstown mayor, on two felony counts he faced for an alleged domestic incident with his wife, Youngstown Councilwoman Amber White.

The grand jury today voted to “no bill” the charges against White, dismissing them after hearing from three witnesses.

White had been in the Trumbull County jail since June 3 for violating the terms of his bond by allegedly harassing his wife. He was supposed to have a bond hearing today, but it was canceled after the grand jury’s decision. White was released today from jail.

“Everything is dismissed,” he said. “I’m going to get my life back together. I’m going to beat the mayor like I beat this.”

White was arrested May 2 on felony counts of disrupting public service and domestic violence at a Liberty home he owns with his now-estranged wife after he was accused of causing damage and acting violently toward her, according to Liberty police.

Gabriel Wildman, an assistant county prosecutor, said that Amber White repeatedly said during a June 3 hearing that her husband “never put his hands on me and at the end of the day, this is a domestic violence case so that probably had something to do with it. The one charge was a little bit up in the air. He was charged with disrupting public service, which is like breaking a phone or whatever. There was some domestic dispute about that, but ultimately the grand jury makes that decision.”

At the time of his arrest, John White told Liberty police that there was no physical violence.

Amber White called 911 on May 2 to say her husband was angry over an article that day in The Vindicator that states his eligibility to run as an independent candidate for Youngstown mayor is being questioned. She told police he asked her to run for mayor and when she refused, he became angry and violent – and this wasn’t the first time.

Amber White told police that her husband damaged their Liberty house, including throwing a crockpot with food at her that ended up going through the front window, threw all of their car keys onto the garage roof, grabbed their juvenile son from her and threatened to “burn the house down as well as burn the vehicles.”

Amber White told police her husband grabbed her cellphone and threw it into a watery ditch while she was on the phone with a 911 dispatcher. John White said the phone slipped.

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