YOUNGSTOWN — A federal criminal complaint in U.S. District Court alleges that Matthew Osika of West Farmington was a felon in possession of a firearm Feb. 23 at his home. The matter was bound over to a federal grand jury during a hearing Friday.

An affidavit in support of the criminal complaint states that on Feb. 18, an FBI agent obtained a search warrant for Osika’s home on Greenville Road in West Farmington.

The warrant was based, in part, on the sale of controlled substances from the home by Osika, the affidavit states. On Monday, members of the FBI, FBI Safe Streets Task Force and Trumbull County Sheriff’s Office executed the search warrant at Osika’s home.

When law enforcement entered the home, they found six people present, including Osika, who did not make himself known to law enforcement. Instead, he was found about an hour later within a hidden compartment near a second-floor bedroom of the home. A woman was found there also and four other people were in the home. One of the people in the home said he and Osika lived there and showed agents which bedroom was Osika’s, the affidavit states.

During a search of Osika’s bedroom, officers found a semi-automatic handgun with an extended bullet magazine inserted into the magazine well that contained 10 rounds of ammunition and one round in the chamber. Also found was a semi-automatic pistol in a box that also contained suspected methamphetamine, the document states. During a search of Osika’s home, a total of 101.4 grams of field-tested methamphetamine was discovered in Osika’s bedroom within four plastic baggies, the affidavit states.

The Derringer was not manufactured in Ohio, and therefore must have traveled across interstate lines to be found in Ohio during the search of Osika’s bedroom, it states.

Osika has prior felony convictions, including aggravated drug possession in Geauga County in 2023, and was sentenced to more than 30 months in state prison. Based on that information, the writer of the affidavit stated that there is probable cause that Osika unlawfully and knowingly possessed a firearm in and affecting interstate commerce after having been convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment of a term exceeding one year, which violates the the federal law called “felon in possession of a firearm,” the affidavit states.

At an initial hearing Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Youngstown, Magistrate Judge Carmen Henderson ordered Osika to be placed into the custody of the U.S. Marshal’s Service pending further proceedings.

On Friday, Henderson granted the government’s motion for Osika to remain in detention in the custody of the U.S. Marshal Service.