Inmate charged in tax fraud scheme

LEAVITTSBURG – A 45-year-old man is charged with income tax fraud, committed mostly while serving as a prisoner at the Trumbull Correctional Institution.

Ronald Dean Wells, of Columbus, who is serving a 20-year to life sentenced for aggravated murder, is charged in federal court by way of information with conspiracy to defraud the government by making false income tax claims.

Usually those charged by way of information have agreed to plead guilty in exchange for a specific sentence.

Wells will be arraigned May 10 before Judge David D. Dowd Jr. in U.S. District Court in Akron following an Internal Revenue Service probe.

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