IMPERIAL, Pa. — Someone using a cellphone registered to West Virginia Sen. Michael Maroney allegedly solicited sex from a woman accused of being at the center of a prostitution ring in Glen Dale, according to a search warrant filed in Pennsylvania.

Investigators in the Marshall County city, working in tandem with Allegheny County Police, secured the search warrant Aug. 3 in order to enter Maroney’s vehicle and retrieve his cellphone after he accidentally left it behind after parking at Pittsburgh International Airport for a vacation.

Glen Dale police on June 14 arrested Cortnie Ann Clark, 30, of Glen Dale and charged her with operating a house of ill fame/assignation and prostitution. Investigators confiscated Clark’s cellphone after her arrest and found thousands of pages of text messages from various people allegedly setting up sexual encounters for money.

Those text messages have led to charges being filed against at least seven men over the past two months. Maroney, a first-term Republican state senator who lives in Glen Dale, has not been charged and has denied, through his attorney, Paul Harris, ever meeting the woman.

The search warrant indicates Glen Dale police “discovered an individual utilizing the cell phone number (the number was redacted on the warrant) soliciting sex from Clark in exchange for money” between May 14 and June 6.

“A search of cell number (redacted) was conducted by Glen Dale PD and found to be registered to Michael J. Maroney,” the search warrant alleges.

Police attempted to search Maroney’s home in Glen Dale on July 29, but he was not home. They soon learned he was on vacation and his phone may have been left in his sport-utility vehicle while it was parked at the airport near Pittsburgh.

An electronic trace of the cellphone led investigators to Maroney’s vehicle, which was in long-term parking, according to the search warrant. Investigators entered the vehicle and retrieved the Samsung phone but nothing else, according to an inventory list attached to the search warrant.