YOUNGSTOWN — Mark A. Parker, 48, will be arraigned today in Youngstown Municipal Court on felony attempted abduction for an early Monday incident in which he is accused of trying to abduct a female on her way to work.

Parker was located at home on Balsam Court on the South Side Wednesday afternoon and was taken into custody on the charge, a fourth-degree felony punishable by about 18 months in prison if convicted, according to a Youngstown police news release. Parker is in the Mahoning County jail and also was wanted on a parole violation.

Capt. Jason Simon, head of the detective division of the Youngstown Police Department, said Thursday that “quick, professional and thorough work” by the Youngstown Police Department patrol division and two police detectives “led to the identification of, and warrant for, Parker.” He added that other law enforcement partners also assisted in the identification and arrest of Parker, including the Mahoning County Adult Parole Authority and Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office.

A Youngstown police report states that Simon and four parole authority officers went to the 100 block of Balsam Court looking for Parker at about 5:45 p.m.

The officers saw a 2002 Buick associated with Parker parked outside. Officers knocked on the door and spoke with Parker, who was then taken into custody and taken to the police station to be interviewed by detectives.

The Buick, which was used in commission of the attempted abduction, was searched, and a black COVID-style mask like the one used in the attempted abduction was found on the passenger seat near the console, the report states.

Parker spent more than 20 years in Ohio prisons after being convicted in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court of aggravated burglary, kidnapping and rape, according to Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections records.

He was admitted to prison in October 2003 and released from prison in May 2024. He is still under the supervision of the Adult Parole Authority for five years from the date of his release from prison, according to prison records.

According to Vindicator files, Parker, then 27, was sentenced to 23 years in prison in August 2003 for raping at gunpoint a 15-year-old girl who was babysitting three children at a house near his home on East Ravenwood Avenue on the South Side.

Dawn Krueger, then a Mahoning County assistant prosecutor, said Parker broke into the home through a basement window in 2000, cut the power lines to the home and raped the girl in an upstairs bedroom.

Prosecutors said Parker had visited the house earlier that day to ask for a bandage for his son, who lived nearby and had cut his finger.