Greenfield man sentenced in domestic violence case

A Greenfield man was sentenced this week to over two years in prison after pleading guilty to multiple charges in a domestic violence case.

As previously reported, Dustin Lee Pryor, 36, of Greenfield was indicted by a Highland County grand jury in August on eight counts, including two counts of strangulation or suffocation, both fourth-degree felonies; four counts of domestic violence, all first-degree misdemeanors; and two counts of prohibitions concerning companion animals, both first-degree misdemeanors. 

According to court records, Pryor pleaded guilty Aug. 31 to both felony charges of strangulation or suffocation; one count of prohibitions concerning companion animals; and one count of domestic violence. The remaining four charges were dismissed.  

For the two felony charges, the indictment alleged that on or about June 21, Pryor “did knowingly cause or create a substantial risk of physical harm” to a victim “by means of strangulation or suffocation.” The domestic violence charge alleged that Pryor “knowingly caused or attemped to cause physical harm” to another victim on June 22. 

Pryor was further accused of “knowingly torturing, tormenting, needlessly mutilating or maiming, cruelly beating, poisoning, needlessly killing or committing an act of cruelty against a companion animal” on June 17. 

During a sentencing hearing Oct. 21, Highland County Common Pleas Court Judge Rocky Coss sentenced Pryor to 14 months in prison on each of the two felony charges to run consecutively to each other. Concurrent jail sentences of six months on each misdemeanor charge were also ordered, for a total of 28 months in prison.

Pryor had 121 days of jail time credit.