WARREN, Ohio - Trumbull County Prosecutor, Dennis Watkins, is asking the Ohio Parole Authority to deny parole for a man who raped two Warren women in the 1990s.

Brian Clingerman plead guilty to 2 counts of rape based on DNA evidence for the crimes he committed in 1995 and 1996. He has been in prison since his sentencing.

Clingerman is approaching the opportunity for parole in the coming months and Prosecutor Watkins says he wants to make sure Clingerman stays behind bars.

"Clingerman is a serial rapist and has a long history of other crimes and imprisonment," said Watkins in a letter to the Parole Authority. "He's dangerous, and at age 57 would likely re-offend if released on parole today."

The rapes happened approximately five months apart in August of 1994 and January of 1995.

Clingerman was found to have broken into two homes while the women were sleeping where he sexually assaulted and raped them.

Watkins says before being sentenced for the rapes Clingerman had a storied criminal past, "The Defendant continued in his criminal ways, including committing multiple B&E's, RSP, Arson, and Attempted Burglary, for which he was sentenced to both county jail and prison."

"Until the expiration of his entire prison sentence is completed. To release him now would neither further the interests of justice, nor be consistent with the welfare and security of society," said Watkins. "It is my hope that the overwhelming evidence you presently have proving Clingerman would be extremely dangerous to women and society at large if released will be sufficient now and in future hearings to keep him in prison until 2046."