Ex-deputy goes to prison for probation violation

Ex-deputy goes to prison for probation violation

YOUNGSTOWN — A former Mahoning County sheriff’s deputy is going to prison for three years after violating her probation by being arrested Dec. 20 on a shoplifting charge.

Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court imposed the prison time today on Kim Marciano, 43, of Wampum Drive, after she admitted violating her probation by being arrested on a theft charge.

The charge, which is pending in Mahoning County Court, Boardman, alleges she tried to steal $145 worth of clothing from Macy’s at Southern Park Mall.

The judge had put Marciano on two years’ probation in January after she pleaded guilty to unauthorized use of a rental car, passing a bad check and theft, all fifth-degree felonies stemming from 2006 incidents.

The charges were to be dismissed if she successfully completed follow-up to drug rehabilitation and fulfilled other terms of her probation.

Judge Krichbaum warned her then, however, that violating her probation could result in up to three years in prison.

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