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Sixth accuser emerges in sexual assault accusations against former Warren police officer

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A Trumbull County grand jury returned an indictment on Tuesday over an accusation by a sixth woman saying a former Warren police officer assaulted her last year.

Michael Edwards now faces seven first-degree felony rape charges with a firearm specification, five fourth-degree felony charges of gross sexual imposition, three third-degree felony charges with sexual battery with a firearm specification, two third-degree felony charges of extortion and two charges each of fifth-degree felony theft in office, fourth-degree charges of menacing by stalking, fifth-degree sexual imposition with firearm specification.

Edwards will be in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court on Wednesday afternoon.

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