GIRARD — A Youngstown man made an appearance in court Monday for charges stemming from an April 13 domestic incident.

Donald McGhee, 28, pleaded not guilty to charges of felony strangulation and domestic violence in Girard Municipal Court in front of Judge Jeffery Adler Monday morning.

According to a Liberty police report, an officer responded to a report at the station, where a woman said a physical altercation happened between her and McGhee, after she found a video on his phone of him engaging in sexual activity with another woman.

When she confronted him about the video, McGhee denied it, but became irate when the woman showed him the clip and pointed out the date and time stamp.

The police report states the woman said McGhee then tackled her, proceeding to choke her to the point where she said she “nearly lost consciousness.” The woman alleged that McGhee then sat on her and refused to let her up, saying she was being “dramatic.” When she was able to get up, she told police McGhee threatened to kill her and began punching her in the back of the head.

According to the report, when the woman told McGhee she wanted to leave, he prevented her from doing so until she deleted the video, sitting on her legs for approximately 30 minutes. He also told the woman that she would have to “beat him up” for her phone when she attempted to access it to call 911.

The woman said she began loading items into her car, and McGhee pleaded with her to come back into the apartment, saying he started apologizing but refused to return her cellphone or iPad.

The woman said she agreed to give McGhee another chance, and he unloaded her items from her vehicle and they went back into their apartment, the report states.

She said she reloaded her items into her vehicle at 12:30 a.m. and left the residence, telling the officer she wished to pursue criminal charges against McGhee.

A temporary warrant was entered against McGhee and surrounding law enforcement agencies were notified to be on the lookout for his vehicle, a dark blue Jeep Compass.

McGhee was arrested by Austintown police Sunday after an officer conducted a random registration check on a dark blue Jeep Compass near the entrance of a Mahoning Avenue Sheetz.

The check revealed his active Trumbull County warrant and he was taken to the Petro Travel Center in Girard, where he was turned over and transported to the Trumbull County jail by Liberty police.

McGhee’s bond was set at $15,000 for the strangulation charge and $5,000 for the domestic violence charge. He remains in jail and is set to appear back in court Wednesday, according to court records.