YOUNGSTOWN — Colyn N. Foreman of Connelly Road in Masury was sentenced to three- to four-and-a-half years in prison Monday after pleading guilty in November to attempted kidnapping and strangulation of his ex-girlfriend June 15 in Austintown.

Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge R. Scott Krichbaum handed down the sentence on the second-degree and third-degree felony offenses.

Krichbaum said he took into account that Foreman, 22, had “never been in trouble before and the fact that your family is here to support you,” as well as his young age.

But he said, “The crimes you committed are big-time crimes” and “unforgivable.”

An Austintown police report states that officers were called to the Sheetz gas station on Mahoning Avenue in the township for a domestic altercation and that Foreman was refusing to exit a car belonging to a woman.

The report states that an officer spoke with the woman, who was crying and had bruises on her neck. She said the episode began the previous day when Foreman, her ex-boyfriend, showed up at her work.

Foreman parked next to her and waited for her to come out. He followed her as she drove and called and texted her. She pulled into Quaker Steak & Lube restaurant on Patriot Boulevard, and Foreman got into her car and “would not stop crying and yelling at her,” the report states.

They went to the Walmart in Austintown for Foreman to buy items. She drove him there so he would calm down, she said. But they argued the whole way there. They left Walmart and returned to the restaurant so that Foreman could get his car.

Then Foreman “got more irate and began yelling at her because he believed she was talking to more guys,” the report states. Foreman “began pulling her back into the car once she tried to exit. Once he pulled her back into the car, he began to strangle her,” she said.

While she was being strangled, she could not breathe, and at one point believed she was going to lose consciousness, she stated.

He then slammed her head against the dashboard and car doors and tried to place her in his vehicle. She was shoved to the ground and held there by Foreman’s knee being driven into her legs, she said. Then he “let up” on her, and they walked back to her vehicle. Once inside, he told her he was going to kill the other guy to whom she was talking.

She drove away to the Sheetz gas station to wait for a friend to arrive, the report states.

The officer then spoke with Foreman, who said he arrived at her job at 7:45 p.m. to speak with her. He agreed with the woman’s account of what happened after that and “admitted he had done it all and wished to be held accountable,” the report states.

He said he has a “problem with anger and knew what was happening, but he could not stop it.”

He said he “wanted someone to call the police on him so he would stop what he was doing.”

He said he and the woman had never lived together.

Photographs were taken of the woman’s injuries and Foreman’s hands because Foreman claimed his hand was bruised. Foreman was then taken to the Mahoning County jail.