A federal judge has denied a request from the son of Mahoning County Juvenile Court Judge Theresa Dellick that he be released from probation nine months early.

U.S. District Court Judge Aaron Pollster on Monday rejected a request from John T. Dellick to grant him an early end to two years of supervised release ordered as part of his February 2017 six-month sentence for being a felon in possession of a firearm,

Dellick still has nine more months to serve on his supervised release which began on September 18, 2017.

A motion for early release filed last month by Dellick claimed that he has complied with terms of his probation, maintaining an honor roll status as he pursues a college degree while maintaining two jobs, one of them as a peer recovery specialist.

Dellick said he has been sober for more than two-and-a-half years and keeping him under supervised release will limit and harm his rehabilitation.

Responding to Dellick's motion, Assistant U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman objected to Dellick's request, arguing that “given Dellick's history of violent behavior, this is an important component to both rehabilitating him and protecting the public.”

Dellick's criminal history dates back to 2014 when he was indicted by the Mahoning County Grand Jury on nine charges including assault, ethnic intimidation, aggravated menacing, abduction and kidnapping.

The charges resulted from two incidents, the first of which was in October, 2013 when Dellick rammed his jeep into another vehicle during a road rage incident on Route 224 in Canfield.

Three months before that Dellick's former girlfriend told police that he assaulted her outside a Canfield pizza shop.

Dellick, who was eventually convicted on one count of aggravated assault and one count of assault, was placed on probation for 18 months and ordered to perform 160 hours of community service.

In January of 2016, Dellick was arrested for a probation violation for which he served ten days in jail and sixty days house arrest.

The probation violation came to light when Boardman police were notified that Dellick left a firearm in a local hotel room.

According to a letter submitted by Dellick's father, his son obtained a firearm from an acquaintance, checked into a local hotel on New Year's Day, where he intended to commit suicide.

A friend then convinced Dellick not to commit suicide, so he left the firearm in the hotel room and checked out.

It was that incident that resulted in the younger Dellick's federal conviction and sentence on the firearm violation.