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Assault lands Warren man in prison

A Warren man will spend more than a decade in state prison stemming from a 2019 assault. And he faces charges that could add substantial time to that total.

John A. Snyder, 50, a lifetime Megan’s Law sexual offender stemming from a 2009 indecent assault conviction, was sentenced on charges including aggravated assault by Judge Gregory Hammond.

He was convicted in a July jury trial on charges of aggravated assault, strangulation, hindering apprehension/prosecution, simple assault and terroristic threats from an incident that occurred in the City of Warren on Sept. 18, 2019.

While out on bail on these charges, he was charged by city police with two counts of failure to verify address/be photographed.

Online court records show a second docket for failure to register and a third on drug possession charges.

Those three sets of chargers are still pending.

Hammond sentenced Snyder on the assault docket to 81 to 162 months incarceration in state prison with credit for 358 days time served, $375 in fines and fees, to undergo drug and alcohol and mental health evaluations and comply with recommendations, submission of a DNA sample and a no contact/no trespass order against the victim on a count of aggravated assault charge.

A simple assault charge merged for sentencing meaning there was no additional punishment there but Hammond also sentenced Snyder to 54 to 108 months incarceration on a count of strangulation, nine to 18 months on a count of terroristic threats and five to 10 months on hindering apprehension/prosecuted.

The total sentence, sans time served, totals over 12 years as a minimum and nearly 25 for a maximum.

Starting at $4.00/week.

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