YOUNGSTOWN — The former owner of a local rehab facility will serve probation for felony domestic violence.

An announcement from the Mahoning County Prosecutor’s Office states that Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge Maureen Sweeney on Monday sentenced Ryan Sheridan, 45, to three years of probation.

On Thursday, Sheridan entered guilty pleas to attempted abduction and domestic violence, as fourth-degree felonies, amended down from the original third-degree felony charges of abduction and domestic violence.

Prosecutors asked for a two-year stint behind bars, while Sheridan’s victim asked for him to receive probation. Sweeney assigned him 18 months of probation on each charge.

Sheridan made an initial appearance on the charges in January after being arrested for an Oct. 23 incident at an Austintown home. He has been in custody in the Mahoning County jail since then because the arrest constitutes a federal probation violation. Sheridan now faces further potential sanctions from federal authorities.

In January 2020, Sheridan was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 7 1/2 years in federal prison after he and five associates were convicted of 60 charges, including Medicaid fraud, in what federal prosecutors called a “massive health care fraud” involving Braking Point from 2015 to 2017.

Gerry Ricciutti, spokesperson for the Mahoning County Prosecutor’s Office, said Sheridan’s domestic violence charge, regularly a first-degree misdemeanor, was escalated to a third-degree felony upon indictment because of two prior convictions for domestic violence from 1999 and 2001.

In late November 1999, Sheridan pleaded guilty to a charge that stemmed from an arrest in Austintown. He was fined $150, served three days in jail — 27 days of a 30-day sentence were suspended — and placed on one year of probation. He was ordered to have no contact with the victim and undergo anger management classes.

Arrested again in June 2001 for abuse against the same victim, he was charged with a fifth-degree felony count of domestic violence, which was dropped to a first-degree misdemeanor upon his no contest plea.

The same sentence was imposed, minus the jail time, with an alcohol abuse assessment also ordered.

An Austintown police report from October states that when police responded to the home, Sheridan fled in a black Cadillac.

When officers spoke with the victim, she said Sheridan is 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.

She said she and Sheridan argued, and 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.