Charged with rape

NILES

Daniel W. Thorne Jr., 18, of Walnut Street remains in the Trumbull County jail in lieu of $1 million bond, charged with the rape of a young girl Dec. 1.

Thorne waived a preliminary hearing Wednesday in Niles Municipal Court, and the case was bound over to a county grand jury. No plea was entered in the case during his arraignment before Judge Christopher Shaker.

The girl and her mother reported the assault at the police department on Dec. 2, and Detective Anthony Roberts investigated, filing the charge March 19.

Thorne was arrested on a warrant at his home March 28.