YOUNGSTOWN — Two men were arraigned on multiple charges following the Feb. 20 kidnapping of a woman from a South Side home. They are accused of taking her to a wooded area on the East Side and torturing her.

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

The woman said she was kidnapped from a home on Judson Avenue on the South Side, severely beaten, raped 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.

She was taken by ambulance to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital. A police report does not give any information about the victim.

Police arrested Janarvis L. Roberts, 26, at his home at 561 Cambridge Ave. on Sept. 30 after serving a search warrant at his house that morning. He was taken to the Youngstown Police Department and to the Mahoning County jail.

The kidnapping and torture is apparently what caused Youngstown police and the FBI to serve search warrants at Roberts’ house and a home on Judson Avenue on Sept. 30. 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 — 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.

The police department did not release a report on the Feb. 20 incident until Thursday, after The Vindicator made a request for it.

Roberts was arraigned Monday in Youngstown Municipal Court on three counts of felonious assault and single counts of kidnapping and aggravated menacing. He returns for a preliminary hearing at 9:15 a.m. Tuesday.

Magistrate Meghan Brundege ordered him held in lieu of $1 million bond.

Farren McClendon, 42, of East Judson Avenue, turned himself in to police Monday in the case. He was arraigned Wednesday in Youngstown Municipal Court on three counts of complicity to felonious assault and single counts of kidnapping and complicity to aggravated menacing.

Brundege ordered him held in the jail in lieu of $750,000 bond. He returns to court for his preliminary hearing at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday.

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