YOUNGSTOWN — Bond was set at $750,000 Tuesday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court when Terrance A. “Andy” Machen, 35, of Youngstown, was arraigned on two counts of kidnapping, two counts of felonious assault and one count of aggravated robbery — more than three years after he failed to appear for his original arraignment date.

Judge Maureen Sweeney set bond at $750,000 after Machen’s attorney entered a not guilty plea to the charges, which stem from a July 31, 2022, incident, in which Machen and two other men were accused of kidnapping two men and assaulting a woman.

Mahoning County Assistant Prosecutor Rob Andrews told Sweeney on Tuesday that because of the type of charges Machen faces and a first-degree felony kidnapping charge pending against Machen in Youngstown Municipal Court, he recommended that Machen be held in jail without bond.

But defense attorney Rhys Cartwright-Jones noted that the charges do not involve a homicide or a potential life in prison sentence, so he believed that some type of bond should be possible.

Machen also was arraigned Monday in Youngstown Municipal Court on the first-degree felony kidnapping. Bond was set at $10,000 on that charge. Court documents show that the kidnapping case in municipal court is part of the 2022 incident.

Machen was at large until he was arrested by state troopers on the municipal court kidnapping charge when a trooper made a traffic stop on Machen early Saturday in Youngstown and discovered the arrest warrant. Court records state that Machen also goes by the first name Andy.

THE INCIDENT

Machen and the two other suspects were indicted on a charge of aggravated robbery with a specification that a firearm was used in commission of a crime, as well as two counts each of felonious assault and kidnapping, plus firearm specifications.

Machen and Robert L. Ervin, then 35, each additionally were indicted on a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm. The third defendant was Corey R. Council, then 34.

A check of common pleas court records shows that the charges against Council were dismissed in early 2025, and the charges against Ervin were dismissed in 2024. In both cases, prosecutors dismissed the charges without prejudice, meaning charges could be refiled later. The court entries in both cases do not explain the reason why the charges were dismissed.

A 2022 Youngstown police report stated that officers were called at 12:34 p.m. July 31 to Cassius Avenue and McGuffey Road on the East Side for a crash involving a white Transit van that may have been connected to a call about 14 minutes earlier on Thurber Lane on the West Side of Youngstown.

A man with the Transit van said he was a victim of a kidnapping on Thurber earlier. He said three men wearing black masks grabbed him. Another man came out of a Kia automobile on Thurber, and he was assaulted several times. He said he and the other man were thrown into the Transit van. He said at some point, he was able to grab the wheel of the Transit van, causing it to crash.

He fought with one of the assailants, who had a box cutter, and the victim was cut on the hand. The assailant ran from the van. The victim was taken to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital for treatment, and the Transit van was towed for investigation.

Officers had gone to the 2200 block of Thurber Lane at 12:21 p.m. and spoken with a woman who said she had partied that night with two men, including one who was her boyfriend. When they arrived at her home on Thurber Lane, the men got out of a Transit van wearing masks, and one of them had a gun.

They threw her to the ground and struck her in the head with a firearm, she said. She heard the people in the Transit van leave, and the two men she was with were gone.

The woman described partying with her boyfriend and the other alleged victim at several locations around the Youngstown area that night and being attacked at her home at the end of the night.

Police also were called to Edwards Street that night, where the other alleged male victim was found with a severe head wound. He was taken to the hospital and was deemed to be in stable condition.

The man said four men got out of the Transit van on Thurber Lane, grabbed him, put a bag over his head, tied him up and put him in the Transit van. He said eventually the men dumped him out at an unknown location with the bag still over his head and his hands still tied. He asked people in a home on Edwards for help, and they called 911.