AKRON, Ohio -- A former Kent State University professor accused of meeting a teenage boy for sex in an elementary school parking lot is back in police custody, five months after he was stopped at the Canadian border trying to leave the country.

Willie Harrell, 44, was booked in the Summit County Jail about 1:30 a.m. Saturday. He was arrested March 22 in Orleans Parish, Louisiana.

He waived his extradition hearing the next day and was sent back to Akron April 15, according to Orleans Parish Magistrate Court records.

He is scheduled for a May 2 appearance in front of Summit County Judge Amy Corrigall Jones.

Harrell faces a fifth-degree felony charge of importuning. He is accused of meeting the 15-year-old boy on Aug. 26 in the parking lot of Smith Elementary School. The two met online, police said.

Harrell admitted to police that he met the boy for sex, according to police reports.

Harrell had no pretrial supervision conditions as part of his $25,000 bond that he posted two days after his arrest. He left the area after posting bond.

Harrell was stopped trying to cross the border of Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario, according to court records.

Harrell told Canadian authorities that he was trying to leave the country to avoid prosecution in his pending case in Summit County Common Pleas Court, according to a court filing by prosecutors.

Harrell also had a device in his car that blocked GPS location tracking, according to court records. He was released to U.S. Border Patrol agents several hours later.

Harrell then told U.S. authorities that he was moving to Canada for work and that he planned to return to Akron for all his court appearances. Corrigall Jones issued a bench warrant for Harrell's arrest after being notified.

Harrell worked as an associated professor of English at Kent State beginning in 2003, when he made about $42,000 annually. He was fired from the university after his arrest.

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