YOUNGSTOWN — Two city men have been indicted on charges that they kidnapped a woman Feb. 20 from a South Side home, took her to a wooded area on the East Side and tortured her.

Farren J. McClendon, 43, of East Judson Avenue was indicted on kidnapping with a gun specification, felonious assault with a gun specification and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Janarvis L. Roberts, 26, of Cambridge Avenue was indicted kidnapping with a gun specification and felonious assault with a gun specification.

Police were called to the 2000 block of Warwick Avenue on the East Side for an injured woman asking for help. Police saw that she had severe injuries.

The woman said she was kidnapped from a home on Judson Avenue on the South Side, severely beaten and dumped in woods off of Nelson Avenue in the Sharon Line area on the East Side. She walked to a home on Warwick for help, she said.

Police arrested Roberts at his home on Cambridge Avenue Sept. 30 after serving a search warrant at his house that morning. He was taken to the Youngstown Police Department and then to the Mahoning County jail.

The kidnapping and torture allegations caused Youngstown police and the FBI to serve search warrants at Roberts’ house and a home on Judson Avenue. Two SWAT teams also assisted police with the search warrants.

Capt. Jason Simon, chief of detectives for city police, would not discuss what case they were investigating when they served the search warrants Sept. 30 — only saying that the FBI and SWAT teams were called in because of the “serious nature of the crime.”

During the search, detectives removed bags of evidence and a box, also marked as evidence, for a long gun from the home on Cambridge.