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LISBON -- Former Liverpool Township police chief Jayson Jackson is facing another domestic violence charge, this time a felony, for punching a woman several times during a domestic which started Sunday night.
Jackson, 53, Campground Road, Wellsville appeared via video for arraignment Monday morning in Columbiana County Municipal Court for a fourth-degree felony charge.
A preliminary hearing is now set for 1 p.m. Aug. 3. He was released from the county jail Monday after posting bond, which was set at $30,000 cash or surety. As part of the judgment entry, Judge Danielle Menning ordered Jackson to be drug tested at the jail.
As a condition of bond, he was also told to have no contact by any means with the victim, who was the same victim from two previous cases for assault amended from domestic violence and for criminal damaging.
Liverpool Township Police were called to East Liverpool City Hospital on Monday to speak with a victim of a possible domestic dispute and learned she was allegedly assaulted by Jackson.
According to the police affidavit, earlier in the night on Sunday, he allegedly grabbed and pulled her hair aggressively. He went to bed, but a short time later woke up and confronted her in the kitchen while she was making his lunch.
"The victim stated that the defendant grabbed her by the hair again and pulled her to the bedroom and was accusing her of cheating and calling her obscenities," the affidavit said.
Then he allegedly punched her on the left side of the face several times and when she covered her head with her hand, he continued to punch her hand and arm.
Last year, Jackson was fined $300 and given a suspended 90-day jail term for criminal damaging for slashing the woman's tires on Sept. 2, 2025. He was ordered to complete 30 hours community service and to have no contact with the victim. He had previously been sentenced to 19 days in jail for assault amended from domestic violence for a 2024 domestic incident involving the same victim.
The current domestic violence charge was elevated to a felony due to the previous convictions.
For the 2024 incident, he was fined $1,000 for the assault charge and sentenced to 180 days in the county jail, with 160 days suspended and credit for one day served, leaving the balance of 19 days he had to serve.
At the time, he was also ordered to complete 50 hours community service, be evaluated for alcohol/substance abuse, anger management and general mental health and to take all medication as prescribed. He was prohibited from consuming or possessing alcoholic beverages or entering any premise serving alcohol as its primary business.
As part of the terms of three years probation, he was to have no contact or communication with the victim, with the no contact order in effect until Sept. 9, 2028.
Jackson served as a police officer and then chief for many years before leaving law enforcement sometime between late December 2021 and early January 2022.