YOUNGSTOWN — Sanjuan Smith, 57, of Youngstown, remained in the Mahoning County jail Friday morning after his arraignment Wednesday in Youngstown Municipal Court on charges of felony strangulation and misdemeanor assault in an early-Monday incident at a home on Midlothian Boulevard on the South Side.

A Youngstown Municipal Court magistrate set bond of $15,000 Wednesday on the felony and $2,500 on the misdemeanor. The magistrate also ordered Smith to have no contact with the alleged victim or the home on Midlothian where the incidents were alleged to have occurred.

No plea was required on the felony, and Smith pleaded not guilty on the misdemeanor. Smith returns to court for a preliminary hearing on the felony and pretrial on the misdemeanor at 9:15 a.m. Wednesday before Judge Renee DiSalvo.

If Smith is convicted of the strangulation charge, he could get about three years in prison.

According to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction website, Smith was expected to be released from prison April 14, 2025, on a failure-to-verify-address conviction out of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.

He was sentenced to two-to-three years in prison Jan. 5, 2023, on a charge of failure to verify his address. He got credit at that time for 258 days already locked up while awaiting trial toward his two-to-three-year sentence, according to court documents.

The strangulation charge stems from allegations that Smith assaulted a woman who lived upstairs in the same home where he was living for several hours early Monday, including wrapping a cord around her neck from behind and pulling it tight enough to cut off her ability to breathe, according to the victim.

The woman said she lives on the third floor of the home and Smith has lived in the basement since about October “because he had no other place to go.”

Smith was sentenced to 10 years prison in 2012 for attempted rape, kidnapping and felonious assault, according to Mahoning County court records.

After the woman called police from the hospital Monday regarding the attack at her home, officers went to the home, and Smith answered the door. He was taken into custody and taken to the Mahoning County jail on his new charges and a warrant out of Mahoning County for an alleged violation of the terms of his probation from the earlier conviction.