Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Five other people were sentenced for a variety of offenses.
MERCER, Pa. -- A Grove City man was sentenced Wednesday in Mercer County Common Pleas Court to three years in jail for stealing from a church and a hotel.
Judge Thomas Dobson sentenced Andrew Shoop, 19, of Spruce Street, to one to 18 months in the county jail for theft by unlawful taking or disposition for taking between $300 and $800 from the Church of the Beloved Disciple, 321 N. Broad St., Grove City, on May 14. Judge Dobson sentenced him to a consecutive one- to 18-month term for theft of services for leaving without paying the Penn Grove Motel, 129 E. Pine St., Grove City, after staying there for four weeks in January and February. Shoop was also ordered to make restitution. Both counts are misdemeanors.
Other court action
Several others also were sentenced.
UStephen Dovutovich, 28, of Fairmont Drive, Hermitage, was placed on one year's probation for theft by unlawful taking or disposition, a misdemeanor. According to court documents, between January and June he took $671 worth of Xanex, Vicodin and Valium, as well as $50 cash, from Rite Aid, 813 E. State St., Sharon.
UMaja Evans, 27, of Stambaugh Avenue, Farrell, was placed on one year's probation and ordered to make restitution for welfare fraud, a misdemeanor. She collected federal food coupons while failing to disclose her Social Security income for April through September 1996, court documents state.
UDonyeal Scott, 33, of Wallis Avenue, Sharon, was sentenced to one to 18 months in the Mercer County Jail followed by six months probation for simple assault and recklessly endangering another person, both misdemeanors. On Feb. 10, he stabbed a man in the back at the Jai Alai, 1109 Mercer Avenue, Hermitage, court documents state.
URussell Vanderslice, 37, address given as the Mercer County Jail, was sentenced to 111/2 to 23 months in the Mercer County Jail for delivery of a controlled substance, a felony. On April 10, he conspired with a woman to deliver one-eighth of an ounce of crack cocaine to an officer at a Coal Bank Road, West Salem Township address, court documents state.
URaymond Wilson, 31, of Lee Avenue, Farrell, was sentenced to six to 18 months in the Mercer county Jail for one count of possession of cocaine with intent to deliver, a felony. According to court documents, on July 7, 2004, he was apprehended in the parking lot of Wal-Mart, 3300 Shenango Valley Freeway, Hermitage, with less than a gram of cocaine.