YOUNGSTOWN — Ryan P. Sheridan, the former Braking Point Recovery Center owner charged with kidnapping in an Oct. 23 incident in Austintown, has a hearing at 3 p.m. Wednesday to determine whether the kidnapping allegations are a violation of Sheridan’s federal probation.

U.S. District Court Judge Benita Y. Pearson will preside over the hearing.

At Sheridan’s first hearing Oct. 31, he was advised of his violations and denied them, according to federal court records. A federal prosecutor asked Magistrate Amanda Knapp to place Sheridan in federal detention, and she agreed. Sheridan has been in the Mahoning County jail since Oct. 27, according to jail records.

On Oct. 23, Sheridan, 45, was involved with a domestic altercation with a woman in Austintown, according to an Austintown police report. The report states that officers went to the woman’s home at 8:49 p.m., and she said Sheridan was her boyfriend and they lived together for more than a year, then broke up about 10 months ago and started dating again recently. She said Sheridan was not living with her at the time of the incident.

The report states Sheridan lived in Youngstown, but Sheridan told Mahoning County Area Court Judge Scott Hunter in late October his address was in Canfield. He has a Silliman Street address in Youngstown, according to court records.

The victim told police Sheridan came to her home about 7:45 p.m. Oct. 23 to have dinner and hang out, but an argument ensued over the woman taking a walk down the street with a friend, the report states.

The woman said she tried to leave by going to her car in the garage, but Sheridan “came chasing after her and grabbed onto her forcefully, removing her from the car and slamming her onto the ground,” the report states. She said Sheridan then dragged her into the house and pinned her to the couch as she attempted to leave.

After a short time, she acted like she was going outside to tend to her cat. She was planning to go around the house and get into her car again, but Sheridan noticed her and dragged her out of the car and “slammed her onto the ground, at which time her head struck the concrete ground,” the report states.

Sheridan dragged her back into the house and the argument continued, she stated. But later, she acted like she was going to the neighbor’s house to seek help, at which point Sheridan fled from the home. She contacted a friend, who called 911, she stated.

The woman was checked by paramedics, but refused further medical attention. A paramedic who assessed the woman said she had an approximately 2-inch to 3-inch raised bruise on the back left side of her head, the report states. She also had a visible cut on her right knee from being thrown on the ground, the report states. Her pants were ripped.

Police went to an address in Youngstown in search of Sheridan, the report states. Officers were unable to locate Sheridan because they did not know his apartment number and received no response from the apartments where they knocked, the report states.

Sheridan was arraigned Oct. 29 on first-degree kidnapping and misdemeanor domestic violence in the incident, and the charges were bound over to a county grand jury during a Nov. 12 preliminary hearing in Mahoning County Area Court in Austintown. The grand jury has not yet acted on the matter.

During Sheridan’s arraignment in Mahoning Area Court in Austintown, his then-attorney Greg Rossi, said Sheridan is “a businessman; he is a personal trainer. He has a lot of clients,” and urged the judge to grant Sheridan a $10,000 bond.

Hunter set bond at $25,000 on the kidnapping and $5,000 on the domestic violence. When Hunter asked where he will live if he makes bond, Sheridan said he will live with his daughter in Youngstown.

Mahoning County Assistant Prosecutor Ralph Rivera said federal authorities have placed a “hold” on Sheridan because of Sheridan’s new charges, saying that the hold would prevent Sheridan from being released from the Mahoning County jail on the $30,000 bond.

Hunter imposed a no-contact order on Sheridan, preventing him from contacting the victim in any way.

Pearson sentenced Sheridan to 7 1/2 years in federal prison in January 2020 after he and five associates were convicted of 60 charges, including Medicaid fraud, in what federal prosecutors called a “massive health care fraud” associated with Braking Point Recovery Services from 2015 to 2017.

Sheridan was released from federal prison in November 2023, according to a motion Sheridan filed in June in his federal criminal case without an attorney, in which he asked for early release from his three years of court supervision. It appears from court documents that no ruling on the motion was issued.

Federal prosecutors in the Braking Point case said Braking Point was paid $24.5 million in false medical claims and said Sheridan drove his employees to increase billing so that revenues would rise.

Sheridan and two top managers were ordered to repay the $24.5 million.

Among the crimes Sheridan and his associates committed were conspiracy to commit health care fraud, seven counts of fraud against Medicaid, one count of conspiracy to illegally distribute drugs, one count of operating premises to illegally distribute controlled substances and 28 counts dealing with money laundering. Braking Point had an office in Austintown.