Accused of raping child

February 23, 2019 at 12:00a.m.

YOUNGSTOWN

U.S. marshals on Friday apprehended an Alliance man accused of repeatedly raping a juvenile over the course of more than two years.

Travis Messenheimer, 34, of Beechview Road, is in the Mahoning County jail awaiting arraignment on four felony counts of rape as well as two felony counts of gross sexual imposition.

A county grand jury indicted Messenheimer Thursday. The indictment says he threatened the juvenile to have intercourse or sexual contact between June 2013, when the child was just 11 years old, and April 2016.