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YOUNGSTOWN A man arrested Thursday following a raid at his Kirk Road residence was arraigned in municipal court Friday.
Matthew Lucarell, 41, of the 3500 block of Kirk, appeared before Judge Anthony Sertick via video conference where his bond was set at $25,000 on a charge of pandering sexually oriented matter involving a minor or impaired person, a second-degree felony.
Court records show if Lucarell does post bond, he is to have no electronic devices.
Lucarell was arrested Thursday after a raid was conducted by Youngstown police, the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office and the participating agencies of the Mahoning County Human Trafficking Task Force.
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“We got lucky on this one,” said Major Robert Miller with the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office on Monday during a press conference on the rescue of missing Denton teen Savannah Childress on Saturday.
The two-week investigation led detectives down the rabbit-hole of online messaging apps, which uncovered multiple victims in Davidson and Alamance County who had been in contact with the suspect who had a known history of the sexual exploitation of children.
Savannah Childress, 14, of Denton was found in Arkansas on Feb. 20 after being kidnapped by William Robert Ice, 38, of Mercer County, Pennsylvania on Feb. 11.
Savannah was last seen at her home in Denton after she logged off of her virtual classroom through South Davidson Middle School. Her parents were alerted by the Davidson County School system, after she failed to show up to meet her younger sibling at the bus stop that afternoon.
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