Police search man's home for child porn



The suspect's bond has been set at $1 million.
& lt;a href=mailto:dick@vindy.com & gt;By DENISE DICK & lt;/a & gt;
VINDICATOR TRUMBULL STAFF
Police seized computer equipment, a cellular phone, videotapes, a pair of pajama bottoms and a chair from the home of a Trumbull County man who is accused of pandering obscenity involving minors.
Mark Heilman, 40, of Dumont Drive, Mineral Ridge, was arraigned Thursday in Niles Municipal Court on two pandering counts. His bond was set at $1 million -- $500,000 on each charge.
Was free on bond
Heilman, who also lists a West Park Avenue, Niles, address, was free on bond after being indicted by a Trumbull County grand jury in July on 28 counts of rape and two counts of gross sexual imposition.
Those charges came from a June investigation in which a female relative told police Heilman forced her to have sex for at least six years.
Niles and Weathersfield police and investigators from the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation Computer Crimes Unit searched the Dumont Drive home Thursday afternoon.
The county prosecutor's office and Children Services also are involved in the investigation, police said.
The items were taken from an upstairs office, lower level and a garage at the home.
A leatherlike chair on wheels that police say was pictured in an animated computer image containing sexually oriented material involving a minor was among the items taken.
Police found the computer image in an earlier search.
Search warrant
The search warrant authorized police to seize from the home any trace evidence of sexual activity, documents or photographs describing or showing child pornography and "any other evidence of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, gross sexual imposition, sexual imposition, pandering sexually oriented matter involving and illegal use of minors in nudity-oriented material."