WARREN — A former Howland chiropractor appeared Tuesday before Trumbull County Common Pleas Court Judge Andrew D. Logan for felony charges of violation of a protection order and menacing by stalking toward his ex-wife.

The defendant, Jeffrey Stychno, 53, of Warren, was indicted by a Trumbull County grand jury but pleaded not guilty to the charges in January.

The indictment states that Stychno engaged in threatening behavior toward the victim from July 2022 through December 2022. The indictment also states that Stychno had a history of violence toward the victim.

Howland police arrested Stychno in early 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 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 by the same victim in 2018.

Stychno once worked as a chiropractor with an office on Niles Cortland Road in Howland, but the Ohio License Center website says his license, which expired in 2014, is forfeited.

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 each was convicted of fraudulent billing practices during their time as co-owners of Integrated Health of Warren.

Stychno will be back in court in relation to the protection order violation where he will have a jury trial before Logan on July 5.