AUSTINTOWN – Emily A. Ciccone, an Austintown trustee candidate, faces a domestic violence charge for allegedly injuring her husband, Mahoning County Clerk of Courts Michael Ciccone, during an argument at their Austintown home.

Emily A. Ciccone was taken to the Mahoning County jail on the first-degree misdemeanor. She is to be arraigned Monday in Mahoning County Court in Austintown.

Police were called to their South Edgehill Avenue home at 9:51 p.m. Thursday.

She told officers that her husband “was mad about his life, which ensued into an argument,” according to the police report. She also told police that her husband was “extremely upset” about his parents separating and brought up that the two of them should also separate, the report states.

Michael Ciccone told police he was sitting on the toilet when his wife threw numerous objects at him, including a coffee mug and a Stanley drinking cup, and one of them struck him on the right leg causing him to bleed, according to the police report. He was treated for injuries to his leg at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital.

Ciccone told police he would need stitches for his injuries and that he wanted to press criminal charges against his wife.

He told police he called Jennifer J. Ciccone, chief deputy clerk of courts and not related to the couple, to pick him up at his home to “alleviate the current argument,” with his wife becoming “irate” when she heard the conversation, according to the police report.

After noticing the bloody leg, Michael Ciccone told police his wife tried to help him by placing a towel on the injury and then she cleaned the blood from the floor while he sat in the bathtub to stop more blood from getting on the floor, according to the report.

Austintown police Patrolman Connor Grenier wrote in a report that he saw several red scratches on Michael Ciccone’s forehead area and the right side of his neck, which the victim said were caused by his wife.

When police arrived, Michael Ciccone was sitting on the living room couch with blood in the room and he “appeared to be heavily sweating, confused” and had an injured leg, according to the police report.

The couple has three children with at least two at home at the time of the incident. Their oldest son told police that his mother threw a coffee cup at his father causing the injury, the police report states. Emily A. Ciccone denied the allegation and then said she did, according to the report.

Jennifer J. Ciccone showed police the broken coffee cup and a blood-stained vacuum cleaner allegedly used to hit Michael Ciccone, the police report states.

The police report said officers responded after Jennifer J. Ciccone called emergency dispatch saying there was a domestic altercation at the Ciccone home and that Emily A. Ciccone “was threatening to kill the male and the children inside of the residence,” according to the report.

A family member took custody of the three Ciccone children, the report states.

Grenier wrote in his report that the interior of the home was “in deplorable condition.”

He wrote: “I observed numerous items scattered across the floor in every room of the house along with numerous used dog diapers (lying) on the floor. Furthermore, I observed the kitchen area of the house to have old food items scattered across the counters to the point where the counters were not visible. The kitchen sink was also overflowing with unclean dishes and old food items. The children’s rooms were also filthy with toys and numerous items covering the floor.”

Emily A. Ciccone is among six candidates on the ballot for the Nov. 4 election for two Austintown Township trustee seats. She lost a state representative race last year as a Republican.

Michael Ciccone, a Republican, was elected last year to a four-year term as clerk of courts.

He hired Jennifer J. Ciccone, who lost a 2024 election for county commissioner, as his chief deputy, raising her starting salary of $120,000 annually to $156,000 on April 20. She was disqualified earlier this year from being an attorney in county domestic relations court because of her position. She also failed to get certified as a Poland Township trustee candidate because she incorrectly identified Mahoning as her township on one of her positions. There is no township named Mahoning in the county.