Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN — The former Braking Point Recovery Center owner will face sentencing on Monday after entering pleas to two felony counts Thursday.

An announcement from the Mahoning County Prosecutor’s Office states that Ryan Sheridan, 45, 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.

Sheridan made an initial appearance on the charges in January, after being arrested for an Oct. 23 incident at an Austintown home.

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.

An Austintown police report states that charges were filed against Sheridan earlier this year after police were sent to a home for a domestic altercation, and the suspect, Sheridan, had 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.

Sheridan will face sentencing Monday before Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge Maureen Sweeney.