YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - A Youngstown tow truck driver is in the Mahoning County jail awaiting arraignment on nearly three dozen sex charges involving minors.

Alex Bugno, 30, surrendered to U.S. Marshals Friday morning.

Bugno was indicted by a grand jury nearly four years after a raid on a Youngstown towing company where Bugno worked. 

Bugno faces 34 charges including pandering obscenity involving a minor, compelling prostitution and importuning. All 34 charges are felonies. 

The charges stem from an investigation beginning in 2014. 

In July of 2014, state agents and local police executed search warrants at three locations, including Bugno Towing for which Bugno worked, as part of an investigation into allegations that include compelling prostitution.

Youngstown police and agents from the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation searched the main office of Bugno's Towing at 1101 East Indianola Avenue, as well as a storage facility owned by Bugno's at 535 North Garland Avenue. 

Authorities told 21 News that the search warrants were issued in connection with an investigation into unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, importuning, compelling prostitution, disseminating matter harmful to juveniles, pandering sexually oriented matter involving a minor, corrupting another person with drugs, and permitting drug abuse.

According to a police report filed in June, a Youngstown man claimed that an employee of the towing company had been paying his sixteen-year son to perform sex acts on the boy. 

The indictment filed in Mahoning County Court Thursday claims that Bugno had sexual contact with a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old on several occasions during 2014 prior to the raid. 

According to an affidavit filed in 2014 by BCI Special Agent Ed Carlini, two juvenile males claim that an employee of the towing company paid them between $200 and $500 each on several occasions to let him perform a sex act on the two boys. The boys claim other juveniles also took part, and the alleged acts took place at all three locations.

The boys allegedly told investigators that many times, the man would have them take a white pill before asking them to undress. They also reportedly said that the man would record videos of the sex acts, and either live stream or post them on the internet.

Police say phones belonging to the boys contained text messages indicating that the man owed them money. The phones also contained pictures large quantities of U.S. currency in the same denominations described as being paid to the boys.

According to the search warrants, on June 20, the suspect performed a sex act on both boys, but couldn't pay them right away. The boys allegedly told police that later that night, they went to Bugno's towing with BB guns, and shot out vehicle windows. One of the text messages from the suspect found on the boy's phone made reference to the car vandalism.

Police confiscated dozens of items from the three locations, including cameras, computers, cell phones, digital storage devices and pill bottles. They also took a couch cushion from the main office of the towing company. One of the juveniles told police that he may have left semen on the couch during one of the alleged encounters.