GREENFIELD, Ohio — A Greenfield man charged in two separate indictments in Highland County was recently sentenced to prison.
As previously reported, Ronald D. Houseman II, 40, was indicted in June 2020 on one count of aggravated possession of methamphetamine, a fifth-degree felony, according to the Highland County Press.
The Press said that in July 2021, Houseman was again indicted by a Highland County grand jury and charged with felonious assault, a second-degree felony; abduction, a third-degree felony; and domestic violence, a fourth-degree felony.
A bill of particulars in that case alleged that in June 2021, when a Greenfield police officer attempted to locate Houseman at a Greenfield residence, a victim alleged that Houseman had been “holding her” in the residence since the previous day. The victim allegedly sustained multiple injuries caused by Houseman, the bill of particulars alleged.
Houseman pleaded guilty to the abduction charge April 6, with the other two counts in the 2021 indictment dismissed. Highland County Common Pleas Court Judge Rocky Coss sentenced Houseman to a definite determinate term of 24 months in prison, with jail time credit of 303 days.
Due to pleading guilty to the abduction charge, Houseman was sentenced to six months in the meth possession case for violating community control, which he received three years for in 2020.
The two sentences are to run consecutively, for a total of 30 months (two and a half years) in prison.
Houseman was admitted into the Correctional Reception Center in Orient on April 13, according to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.