WARREN — A 29-year-old Struthers resident accused of two counts of assault, gross sexual imposition, kidnapping and endangering children was granted a request for an additional 180 days before trial to enable his attorney to prepare his case.

The next preliminary hearing for George W. Panno II, 853 Fifth St., Struthers, is scheduled for Aug. 8.

Panno is accused of dragging a 26-year-old resident of 142 Royal Mall, Niles, while pointing a 5-inch Goodcook Santoku knife at her the morning of April 22.

A Niles police report states that a man was seen punching the woman as he dragged her by her hair back into the apartment. The victim ran outside once again and the man began banging her head on the concrete floor, according to the report.

When police arrived at the apartment complex, Panno was seen driving a white Nissan Ultima from the property. After blocking the vehicle with a police vehicle, officer Todd Mobley drew his weapon and ordered the driver out.

“The suspect leaned toward the center of the vehicle as I continued giving verbal commands for him to exit the vehicle,” Mobley stated in the report. “The suspect appeared to have blood on his hands and clothing as he complied and exited his vehicle and was ordered to the ground.”

The assault victim told officers that Panno bit her in the right ear. She had blood running down the side of her face.

The victim’s child is was in the room when she was being assaulted, according to the police report.

At St. Joseph Warren Hospital, police took photographs of strangulation marks on her neck, a human bite mark on the back of her neck, a bite on her right ear lobe, and blood and bruises that riddled her upper body, the report states.

Police collected a knife with what appeared to blood on it as evidence, according to the police report. However, the victim stated she was neither cut nor stabbed with a knife.