A Russell man faces additional felony charges after allegedly using a Warren County Jail tablet to solicit sexual acts from underage girls.

Bryan K. V. Bair, 19, was charged Tuesday with first-degree felony unlawful contact with a minor – sexual offenses, first-degree felony criminal attempted involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a person less than 16 years of age, second-degree felony unlawful contact with a minor – sexual offenses, second-degree felony photograph/film/depiction on a computer sex act – knowingly or permitting child, second-degree felony unlawful contact with a minor – sexual offenses, and three counts of third-degree felony criminal use of a communication facility. Bail was set at $50,000 by Magisterial District Judge Raymond Zydonik during a preliminary arraignment on Tuesday. A preliminary hearing will be held in Zydonik’s courtroom on Sept. 3.

The alleged offenses date back to June, according to online court docket information, a time when Bair was in the Warren County Prison while awaiting trial on several felony charges after a 13-year-old girl alleged there was inappropriate sexual contact at a family gathering in Farmington Township. Bair denied the girl’s allegations during the investigation before eventually pleading guilty in May to a third-degree felony charge of corruption of minors and indecent assault in May in the Court of Common Pleas in front of Judge Gregory Hammond. Two counts of unlawful contact with a minor – sexual offenses, a class 3 felony, and a charge of indecent assault forcible compulsion were not prosecuted.

According to the Affidavit of Probable Cause filed in the alleged June incident, a Warren County Jail lieutenant said he saw Bair video chatting with a girl on the jail’s tablet and contacted Warren police officers on June 25. The jail lieutenant allegedly showed Warren police officers the video of Bair speaking with the girl, who the officer recognized as a Warren girl.

“I was advised that some of the video chats are sexual in nature,” the officer investigating the incident said in the affidavit.

On July 24, police applied for a search warrant for all video calls and text messages from Bair while he was in the county jail. That warrant was approved the same day by Judge Zydonik, and the jail lieutenant provided the text messages and video chats. According to the affidavit, from March 23 through June 24, 2025, Bair video chatted with two girls on the Warren County prison tablet with 14 documented video chats with the girls that included requests for sexual acts of both girls.

One girl was 13 when the videos were made while the other girl was 12, according to the affidavit.

“The video chats were sexual in nature, as Bair solicited the female juveniles to commit sexual acts …” the affidavit states.