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Man, 24, charged with strangulation

YOUNGSTOWN — Samuel Henderson, 24, was arraigned in Youngstown Municipal Court Friday on felony strangulation and misdemeanor domestic violence and unlawful restraint in a Dec. 8 altercation involving a woman on Canfield Road in Youngstown.

He took their 8-month-old child when he left, but the child was returned to its mother unharmed later, Youngstown police said.

Henderson was arrested Thursday on a warrant through Youngstown Municipal Court on the three charges and was taken to the Mahoning County jail by the U.S. Marshal’s Service, according to a Youngstown police report.

Henderson was arraigned Friday in Youngstown Municipal Court and remained in the Mahoning County jail later Friday on $25,000 bond, according to jail records. He returns to court for a preliminary hearing on the felony Friday.

The charges stemmed from a Dec. 8 report that officers were sent to an apartment on Canfield Road in the city at 7:45 a.m. for a domestic call and a woman reported that Henderson, her ex-boyfriend, assaulted her by throwing her against a wall and choking her until she passed out.

When she woke up, Henderson was gone, along with their 8-month-old daughter. While an officer was talking to the woman, he saw dried blood on her face near her nose and several red marks on her neck and face, the report states.

She said she and Henderson had been dating on and off for two years. She said she told Henderson two weeks ago she was breaking up with him and that she was dating someone else. The woman’s new boyfriend, who was present at the apartment, told police Henderson logged onto the woman’s SnapChat account and found her conversation with the other male and got upset.

She said when he found out, he sent her text messages while she was at work “nonstop,” saying there was something wrong with their daughter, but the woman said she told him she is with the child all day, every day and needed a break and figured he was just trying to get her to come home, the report states.

Police asked the woman where she thought Henderson might have taken their daughter. She said Henderson told her father that he was going to bring their daughter to him because he had to work, but Henderson had not done so yet, and Henderson had turned off his phone.

Officers investigated the matter as a possible kidnapping and were concerned about the child’s welfare. A police department supervisor went to the business in North Jackson where Henderson worked, and they said he was a no-show for work that day. The officer had the 911 center “ping” Henderson’s phone, and it was determined that the phone had been turned off that morning. The phone was last known to be in Medina County, Ohio.

A notice to be on the lookout for Henderson and his daughter was issued. Later, Henderson dropped the child off with his ex-girlfriend’s mother unharmed, a Youngstown police supervisor said Sunday.

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