BOARDMAN — A man accused of violating a restraining order was arrested Tuesday after police said he was “casing” the parking lot at Walmart on Belmont Avenue in Liberty.

Edward Demon McLane, 38, of Youngstown, is due in Mahoning County Boardman Court today to face two felony counts of violating a protection order.

Boardman police took custody of him Tuesday afternoon from Liberty police, who arrested McLane after people in the Walmart parking lot reported him for peering into cars. The Liberty police report states that McLane was found wearing a yellow safety vest in an apparent effort to disguise himself as a Walmart employee.

The report states he was brought to the Mahoning County jail, where Boardman booked him. Trumbull County court records do not show any charges pending against McLane.

Two Boardman police reports from November and February document allegations by McLane’s ex-girlfriend that he violated protection orders on multiple occasions.

The report states that Mahoning County Courts Magistrate Carol Clemente-Wagner issued two separate protection orders against McLane in late June 2023 after a domestic violence incident.

Court records show that in May 2024, a domestic violence charge was dismissed at the victim’s request, though it does not indicate if that victim is the same woman. In September 2020, McLane pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of disorderly conduct after being charged with domestic violence in July of that year.

The Boardman police reports state that in mid-November, the woman told police that while McLane had been routinely violating the protection orders through phone and social media messages, she did not report the violations because she did not want to incite him to escalate his behavior.

However, on Nov. 13, she said she received two phone calls she believed to be from McLane, and very shortly after heard a knock at the door. She told police she could not see anything through the door’s peephole, so she started to open the door. She told police she saw McLane and immediately slammed and locked the door. She said he then went around the home to the sliding glass doors and tried to enter the home that way. She called 911 and hid in her room until police arrived.

McLane allegedly sent generally innocuous messages in December and January, but in February he also allegedly sent her links to video files of the two of them engaged in sex acts, which he also uploaded to one of his social media profiles. The woman told police McLane did not have her permission to share those videos.