Sylvania man jailed after 5-hour standoff; teen says she was assaulted

A Sylvania man accused of assaulting a teenage girl before barricading himself in his apartment and engaging police in a five-hour standoff was being held on $10,000 bond Friday, authorities said.

Mario Stansley, 29, of 4902 Wickford Drive East was charged with assault, intimidation, and disorderly conduct, all misdemeanors. He unsuccessfully requested release during his arraignment before Sylvania Municipal Court Judge M. Scott Ramey via video from the Lucas County jail Friday.

"Tomorrow night, I have to be in Waterloo, Indiana, for a sporting event," he told the judge. "That is the only thing I have going for me right now. I'm not working."

The suspect is involved in boxing and mixed martial arts, according to his online profiles on Facebook.com and Myspace.com.

The judge gave him until Wednesday to find a lawyer and then enter a plea.

Mr. Stansley reportedly was shouting insults at a group of teen girls and a boy across his backyard fence about 5:30 p.m. Thursday when one of them, Kayla Douglas, 14, told him to stop, police said.

He then reached over the fence and attempted to pull her over it by her hair and punched her in the face before she managed to free herself, police said.

Her injuries included bruises on her cheek, a bump on her head, and scratches.

The teenager said until Thursday she had never met Mr. Stansley, who lives next to her friend's family. She said he was yelling at her friends and calling them "fat" when she arrived, minutes before she was assaulted.

"It was very scary, because as soon as I got down, he tore down the fence," Kayla said. "It was really frightening because he's a 29-year-old man, and I'm just a girl."

When police responded, he didn't answer his door and presumably had left his home, police said.

Two hours passed before police received another call that Mr. Stansley was back to shouting at the teenagers. Upon arrival, the suspect refused to leave his residence and shouted vulgarities at officers, they said.

Over the next several hours, police evacuated five homes and closed the street as a special response team tried to coax him out, police said. They broke down his door shortly before 2 a.m.

Staff writers Mark Zaborney and David Patch contributed to this report.

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