URBANA — A Rantoul man is being held at the Champaign County Jail following his arrest for four separate domestic battery incidents involving two different women.

Michael McClendon, 27, who listed an address in Rantoul, pleaded innocent on Thursday to two counts of aggravated domestic battery, one count of aggravated battery, four counts of domestic battery with a prior conviction for domestic battery, one count of home invasion and one count of aggravated unlawful possession of a firearm.

Assistant State's Attorney Duke Harris said McClendon had a previous domestic battery conviction in Sangamon County.

According to police reports, McClendon's former girlfriend was a passenger in a vehicle in the 600 block of Heath Drive, Rantoul, at 10:12 p.m. May 13 when McClendon approached the vehicle, opened a door, slapped the 24-year-old Rantoul woman, displayed a handgun and ran away.

Then, about noon July 1, police said McClendon was with another former girlfriend, who was visiting her cousin's apartment in the 300 block of South Steffler Street, Rantoul, when McClendon and the woman got into an argument.

Police said McClendon punched the 26-year-old woman in the face and head and later drove her to Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana, where she received treatment for a broken jaw bone.

Police said the victim didn't report this incident until two weeks later.

Then, police said McClendon was with the second woman on West John Street in Champaign on Aug. 2 when he strangled her and struck her on or about the face, causing the woman's tooth to chip.

Then, at 1 a.m. Wednesday, police said McClendon entered the unoccupied Rantoul home of the first woman and waited for the woman to get home. When the woman arrived, police said McClendon hit the woman in the head with a frying pan.

The woman was bleeding and was injured in the head, face, neck and rib cage, but she refused medical treatment, according to the report.

When police found McClendon to arrest him, his clothing still had blood on it, the report said.

Judge John Kennedy ordered McClendon to have no contact with either woman or either of the women's homes. He set McClendon's bond at $250,000 for each of the first three incidents and $500,000 for the fourth incident.

Kennedy set McClendon's next court appearance for Oct. 4.