MAHONING COUNTY More charges in child porn case

The Sigle Lane man also was indicted this week in Trumbull County.
By BOB JACKSON
VINDICATOR COURTHOUSE REPORTER
YOUNGSTOWN -- A Boardman man has been indicted by a Mahoning County grand jury on charges of pandering obscenity involving a minor.
Jon Scott Bloyer, 43, of Sigle Lane, had sexually oriented pictures of children in his truck when authorities searched it, said Dawn Krueger, assistant Mahoning County prosecutor. All of the pictures involved young girls, some of them in sexual bondage situations, Krueger said.
She said there were several pictures in the truck, but Bloyer was charged only on ones in which the girls were clearly age 10 or younger. Boardman police also found sexually oriented photos in Bloyer's home.
Bloyer was indicted on 10 counts of the same charge, each a fourth-degree felony. If he is convicted of each count and receives the maximum sentence, he could get up to a total of 15 years in prison, Krueger said.
Charges elsewhere
Bloyer, a former volunteer announcer for the Boardman Little Spartans football program, also was indicted this week by a grand jury in Trumbull County on the same charge. Authorities say he used a public computer at the Girard Free Library to view sexually oriented images involving children.
Niles police have confiscated a computer they say Bloyer used in that city's public library.
Krueger said he also faces charges in the Dayton area accusing him of sending letters to a 14-year-old girl who lives there.
"He just racked up a whole list of charges all at the same time," Krueger said, noting that Bloyer has no prior criminal record.
She said more charges could be filed against Bloyer later, depending on the outcome of a search of computers seized from his home and the libraries.
Krueger said those computers are being checked by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation to see whether Bloyer downloaded and saved sexually oriented images.
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