YOUNGSTOWN — Sanjuan V. Smith, 57, was indicted Thursday on kidnapping with a repeat violent offender specification, rape with a sexually violent predator specification, felonious assault with a repeat violent offender specification and strangulation.

The charges relate to a Dec. 22 incident at a home on Youngstown’s South Side in which a woman said Smith assaulted her for several hours, including wrapping a cord around her neck and pulling it tight enough to cut off her ability to breathe.

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

She said she and Smith have no relationship and have never dated, but he is “under the impression that (she) is his girlfriend,” even though she has told him that is not the case.

Sometime shortly after midnight Dec. 22, she was confronted by Smith in the “upstairs area” of the home. He accused her of “sneaking around with a male and hiding it from” him, the report states.

He allegedly struck her with a closed fist in the eye. She sat in a chair to brace herself, and Smith wrapped a cord around her neck from behind and pulled it tight until she could not breathe, she said. She was struggling against the choking, but when she stopped, he released the cord.

She told Smith she was tired and going upstairs, but Smith instead forced her into the basement and punched her with a closed fist “all over her body,” a Youngstown police report states. At one point, she thinks Smith hit her in the ribs with a flashlight. He took her phone and urinated on her, spit on her and poured water on her, she said. She told Smith she could not take it anymore, and he gave her phone back and let her go upstairs. It was about 5 a.m., the report states.

The report states the woman had a swollen and bruised right eye, cut and bruised lower lip, welt-like wound on the left side of her neck and swollen left hand.

Officers went to the home where the attack occurred, 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 a violation of the sex offender registration requirements he is under as a result of his previous record.

Smith was sentenced to two to three years in prison in January 2023 in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court on a probation violation on an earlier conviction.

He also was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2012 after being convicted in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court of attempted rape, kidnapping and felonious assault.

An Ohio appeals court ruling from Smith’s appeal of his 10-year sentence states that the victim said she was “beaten, strangled, urinated upon, pushed through a wall, raped and held captive for six hours.”

The appeals court sent the case back to the trial court for resentencing, but Smith still got a 10-year prison sentence, according to court documents.

Others indicted Thursday are:

•Christina J. Foster, 45, Halleck Young Road, Warren, burglary.

•Jacqueline Harrington, 38, Jean Street, Campbell, aggravated drug possession.

•Ryan Harrington, 38, Jean Street, Campbell, aggravated drug possession.

•Diane T. Neal, 67, Oakcrest Avenue, Austintown, passing bad checks.

•Aaron D. McGrath, 30, Mahoning County jail, tampering with evidence.

•Stephen J. Tate, 40, Oak Street Extension, aggravated drug possession and failure to comply with an order or signal of a police officer.

•Richard Aubreyona, 28, Lakewood Avenue, cocaine possession.

•Brad E Turek, 50, Longview Drive NE, Warren, operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol, a drug of abuse or a combination of them — OVI.

•Christopher M. Braun, 32, Mahoning County jail, aggravated drug possession.

•O’Keefe A. Brown, 32, West Ravenwood Avenue, tampering with evidence and being a felon in possession of a firearm.

•Kenneth D. Newton, 28, Mahoning County jail, two counts of assault and one count of aggravated menacing.