YOUNGSTOWN — The Mahoning County Prosecutor’s Office has asked a judge to dismiss the criminal charge pending against Squire Glenn in the July 2021 attack on Mahoning County Deputy Dog Warden Dave Nelson because Glenn has died.

Glenn, 63, of Youngstown, was indicted in February 2023 on felonious assault with

specifications of a prior conviction and repeat violent offender.

One of the final entries in Glenn’s criminal case docket was a Nov. 2, 2023, notice that psychologist Robert Stinson had been appointed to conduct a sanity evaluation on Glenn.

The docket does not indicate that the evaluation was completed.

The last hearing in the case was Nov. 28, 2023.

Steve Maszczak, assistant county prosecutor, filed the motion Wednesday asking that the case be dismissed, saying that Glenn passed away July 30.

A letter from the Mahoning County Coroner’s Office states Glenn’s death is being investigated by the coroner’s office and Youngstown Police Department.

It states Glenn was found dead in his home in Youngstown. His cause and manner of death are pending autopsy results and toxicology results, which may take from four to six months to be completed.

The specifications in Glenn’s indictment relate to Glenn having been convicted of four counts of felonious assault on a peace officer in Mahoning County in a 1993 case, according to Glenn’s indictment.

Glenn’s attorney, Lou DeFabio, asked in late July 2021 for Glenn to be evaluated for competency to stand trial. Judge Carla Baldwin of Youngstown Municipal Court found Glenn not competent to stand trial in January 2022.

He was sent to Heartland Behavioral Healthcare in Massillon, a state mental hospital, where he received treatment until he was found competent to stand trial in January 2023 and waived a preliminary hearing. His case was bound over to a grand jury.

The stabbing took place July 20, 2021, while Nelson was investigating a dog matter on the South Side.

Nelson had gone to the corner of West Myrtle and Oak Hill avenues, along with Youngstown police and Animal Charity of Ohio in Boardman, to investigate because someone reported that a man in a wheelchair was dragging a dog along Oak Hill.

Nelson was the first of the three agencies to arrive. He saw the man on the driver’s side of his van. He spoke briefly to the man, who was in a wheelchair but disappeared from view.

Nelson then turned to his right to speak into his portable radio and report his location when the man pulled himself up into the driver’s window and attacked Nelson with a knife, Nelson has told The Vindicator.

The dismissal request was made to Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge Anthony D’Apolito.

Staff file photo / Ed Runyan
Squire Glenn during a November 2021 hearing in Youngstown Municipal Court after he was charged with stabbing a deputy Mahoning County dog warden.