Staff photo / Ed Runyan Caden Moffo, 21, left, was sentenced Thursday to two years of probation on one count of abduction and one count of domestic violence involving a female who is due to deliver his child in August. At right is his attorney, Mike Yacovone.

YOUNGSTOWN — Caden Moffo, 21, was sentenced to two years of probation Thursday after pleading guilty earlier in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court to abduction and misdemeanor domestic violence for an Aug. 4, 2025, incident involving his then-ex-girlfriend.

A Youngstown police report states that Moffo drove off with the woman in his car against her will after agreeing to talk to him in downtown Youngstown with her friends nearby as she got in his car.

She told police she decided to get out of the car at a point when he became aggressive and had a gun in the car, the report states. When she opened the door to leave, he pushed on the gas and left the parking lot with her as she pleaded with him to let her out, the report states. She said Moffo would occasionally point the gun at her and threaten her while driving to his home in Boardman.

Boardman police took Moffo into custody at his Boardman house, charging him with two misdemeanor counts of domestic violence for throwing bleach on her and striking her inside the house, the Youngstown police report states.

A Boardman police report states that officers arrived at the home about 1 a.m. Aug. 4 after the woman’s friend called to say Moffo had assaulted her. She said Moffo poured bleach on her and held a gun to her head.

At the sentencing hearing, Mahoning County Assistant Prosecutor Kyle Hilles told Judge John Durkin that the defense and prosecution were jointly recommending that Moffo enter into the in-house program at the Community Corrections Association of Youngstown and are recommending that a no-contact order related to the victim be eliminated.

Defense attorney Mike Yacovone explained that there is another case that originated in Boardman involving Moffo and the victim in the Youngstown case that has a connection to Moffo’s sentence.

Yacovone said Moffo has another case in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court involving Moffo violating a protection order against the same female as the first case.

“That female, that woman, happens to be the soon-to-be mother of Mr. Moffo’s child,” Yacovone said. He added that the woman has stated in “her words, she was supposed to go down and get the (protection order) dismissed and she never did.”

Yacovone said Judge Maureen Sweeney held a hearing March 24 and found Moffo guilty of violating his probation in the other case and ordered Moffo to complete an in-house program at CCA that included 16 days in the Mahoning County jail and to be released to CCA only.”

Yacovone said Moffo has now spent 66 days in jail and does not want to be locked up again and has a job with his father’s company waiting for him.

The baby is due in August, and Moffo has been attending church and Alcoholic Anonymous meetings while in jail, Yacovone said. Moffo’s mother has been supportive throughout Moffo’s legal issues and was in court Thursday, Yacovone noted.

When Durkin asked Moffo the status of his relationship with the mother of his unborn child, Moffo said they are on good terms.

Durkin did agree not to send Moffo to prison. He said he did not have to approve Moffo going to CCA because Sweeney had already done that, but he said Moffo’s two years of probation would be overseen by “the Adult Parole Authority or CCA.”

Then Durkin warned Moffo that he can punish Moffo if Moffo fails to complete the CCA program successfully by sending Moffo to prison. He said it could be for up to three years.

“If you take advantage of programs that CCA offers, It is only going to help,” Durkin said of help for substance abuse or whatever issues he has. Durkin dismissed the no-contact order.