BOARDMAN — A man with a criminal past is under arrest for allegedly beating the mother of his child.

Javon Marquese Sutton-Elliott, 34, of Boardman, has been on the run from police since July, but is now in Mahoning County jail and will be arraigned by video in Mahoning County Boardman Court today at 4 p.m. He is charged with one count of domestic violence, a first-degree misdemeanor.

A Boardman police report states officers were called to an undisclosed address in the township July 5. On that morning, Sutton-Elliott took the woman’s car and picked her up from work and brought her home. He later returned with her car because he was supposed to bring her children to a relative’s house. But while he was at her home, he picked up an old phone of hers and started going through it. The woman said he became upset by what he saw and allegedly hit her in the face several times in front of her son.

She told the boy to call 911, but Sutton-Elliott grabbed both of her phones so that nobody could call the police.

The woman then told the boy to run to a neighbor’s house for help. The report states Sutton-Elliott chased him out the door, but the boy outran him. Sutton-Elliott then took both phones and fled in the woman’s car.

Upon arrival, police noted that the woman had a bloody lip and swelling around her eye. Because the incident occurred in front of the boy, police signed the domestic violence charging sheet on her behalf, and the woman agreed she would like to press charges.

Sutton-Elliott remained at large until Tuesday, when Campbell Police Department called to notify Boardman that they had him in their custody, arrested on the warrant for domestic violence. Boardman took custody of him and brought him to jail.

Online court records show that in 2010, Sutton-Elliott pleaded guilty to an amended charge of burglary, reduced from a third-degree to a fourth-degree felony, and was given five years probation. In 2015, he was found guilty of heroin possession, a fourth-degree felony and placed on probation. In 2017, he was found guilty of possession of firearms under disability, a third-degree felony, and sentenced to 14 days in jail. A charge of firing into a habitation or school was dismissed.

In 2020, a charge of domestic violence was dismissed. In 2021, he pleaded guilty to possession of a fentanyl-related compound and obstructing official business, fourth- and fifth-degree felonies respectively, and a charge of tampering with evidence, a third-degree felony, was dismissed. In June 2022, he was sentenced to nine-month terms for both convictions, which ran concurrently. In August of that year, he requested to be released to a transitional control program for the remainder of his term, but Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge Maureen Sweeney rejected the request.