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WARREN -- Former Howland chiropractor Jeffrey L. Stychno pleaded guilty Tuesday to a charge of violating a protection order.
Facing a fifth-degree felony, Stychno could get the charge dismissed if he completes the probation department's intervention-in-lieu-of-conviction program, according to the Trumbull County Prosecutor's Office.
The program requires a three-year supervision and one year of sobriety. The case involved threatening behavior toward a woman from July through December 2022.
The case is being handled by Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge Andrew D. Logan.
Stychno, 54, of Warren, was indicted by a Trumbull County grand jury, but pleaded not guilty to the charges in January 2023. The indictment states that Stychno engaged in threatening behavior toward the victim, and he had a history of violence toward her.
Howland police arrested Stychno in September 2022 for violating a protection order against the victim. He pleaded not guilty during his arraignment that month, and hearings on the case were continued later that year.
At a November 2022 hearing, Warren Municipal Court Judge Terry F. Ivanchak determined there was probable cause to believe the defendant was guilty of the violation.
According to court documents, Stychno was in Warren Municipal Court on Jan. 4, 2019, for violating a protection order placed on him in 2018 by the same victim.
Stychno once worked as a chiropractor with an office on Niles Cortland Road in Howland, but the Ohio License Center website shows his license expired in 2014.
In September 2013, he and fellow chiropractor Michael Frasca each were ordered to pay $69,781 to the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation and $19,715 to Medicaid after being convicted of fraudulent billing practices during their time as co-workers of Integrated Health of Warren.