Purchasing scandal convict reports to jail

WARREN -- Tony Delmont, the convicted former Trumbull County maintenance director, reported to the county Jail Tuesday morning -- and was later taken to Lorain Correctional Institute.
Delmont walked through the jail's front doors about 8:40 a.m. to begin his three-year sentence, officials said.
LCI, meanwhile, is a processing facility that sorts prisoners and determines where they will be sent for their incarceration.
Delmont, 50, of Warren, was the point man in a county purchasing scandal. Prosecutors say he facilitated $400,000 worth of theft from the county between 1999 and 2002 by accepting $60,000 in bribes from vendors selling janitorial supplies and services at exorbitant prices.
On Jan. 27, Judge Peter Kontos of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court sentenced Delmont to three years in prison. He did not have to report right away, however, because he has cancer, and a doctor at University Hospitals in Cleveland said he needed care that could not be provided in prison.
Last week, however, Judge Kontos ruled that Delmont could receive "more than adequate treatment while in the custody of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections and should be incarcerated," and ordered him to begin his sentence Tuesday.