YOUNGSTOWN — The estranged wife of former neurosurgeon Dr. Ali Kooshkabadi, who faces criminal charges in two townships, has asked a court to allow their home on St. Ursula Drive, where Kooshkabadi lives, to be sold.

Maria Kooshkabadi, who filed for divorce from her husband in September, is asking Judge Beth Smith of Mahoning County Domestic Relations Court for an emergency order allowing the property to be sold prior to the conclusion of the divorce case.

The motion also asks that her husband be ordered to undergo psychiatric counseling to help the court determine parental rights and responsibilities for visitation rights involving their minor children.

Smith approved a protection order against Dr. Kooshkabadi on Dec. 28.

Dr. Kooshkabadi, 39, was charged with five offenses in Boardman and Canfield townships between April 1 and 3: two aggravated menacing and one violating a protection order April 1 in Canfield Township, making terroristic threats April 2 in Boardman and having weapons under disability April 3 in Canfield Township.

The sale of the home is needed to “preserve the value and integrity of the property,” the filing states, adding Dr. Kooshkabadi has failed to maintain the home and has caused “waste, damage and destruction,” which “puts the marketable condition and value of the property in jeopardy.”

Multiple attempts to reach Dr. Kooshkabadi’s attorney, David Engler, for comment were unsuccessful.

The filing, by attorney Lynn Maro, states social media posts indicate the property is not being maintained. Dr. Kooshkabadi’s TikTok posts show writing on the walls in marker, furniture scattered and a “complete lack of lawn maintenance.” It states a video shows the doctor hitting the mailbox violently with a baseball bat.

Local law enforcement agencies have declined to release police reports detailing the actions of Dr. Kooshkabadi that led to charges.

Documents from the Ohio Medical Board, however, state his license to practice medicine and surgery was suspended April 26 because of the incidents that took place April 1, 2 and 3 and details the allegations:

• On April 1, he went to the AT&T store in Boardman and caused a disturbance and threatened staff, including making a “slashing gesture across your throat as you left,” and police were called to the scene, the document states;

• On April 2, he appeared at the Fin Feather Fur Outfitters store in Boardman and tried to buy a firearm, but after the staff found he was ineligible to buy a firearm because of information found in a background check, Dr. Kooshkabadi “created a disturbance,” the document states.

“You threatened to kill staff there and made threats implying you were a terrorist, including yelling ‘Death to America,'” the document states. Police were called to the scene;

• On April 3, deputies with the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office were called to his home to take Dr. Kooshkabadi to the hospital for treatment of mental health issues, but Dr. Kooshkabadi said “17 paratroopers stormed my house,” the document states. He had a firearm when deputies detained him.

He was taken to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital, where he was admitted, the document states.

While there, he described himself as “ISIS and a terrorist,” adding, “Call Iran,” the document states;

• On April 4, he was admitted to the Northeast Behavioral Healthcare Center near Cleveland following “several recent community incidents culminating in the police bringing you to the emergency department at St. Elizabeth’s,” the filing states. He made a remark about ISIS there also, the document states.

The medical board found the incidents constituted his inability to practice medicine.

The document states in September 2021, he was placed on leave by his employer. Online documents indicate he had worked for multiple medical facilities, including St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital.

The medical board document states he was placed on leave on or before September 2021 “after a series of incidents were reported by staff and patients.” Among them were emotional outbursts in an operating room during and after surgery.

He was “hospitalized at Akron City Hospital and subsequently moved to Georgia after your release,” the document, addressed to Dr. Kooshkabadi, states.

He moved back to Ohio in March. On March 22, he appeared at the Aqua Pazzo restaurant in Boardman and alarmed staff and patrons by his “appearance, conduct and volume” and was asked to be quiet and then was asked to leave, the document states. Police were called to the restaurant.