Ex-juvenile jail guard sentenced for trafficking
The drug dealer will be eligible for parole in 18 months.
YOUNGSTOWN — A fired corrections officer at the Martin P. Joyce Juvenile Justice Center has been sentenced to three concurrent four-year prison terms on three cocaine trafficking counts to which he pleaded guilty in January.
Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court imposed the sentence Tuesday on Robert G. Anderson, 36, of North Bruce Street.
Anderson was immediately jailed pending his transfer to state prison, from which he’ll be eligible for judicial release in 18 months, said Dennis A. DiMartino, his defense lawyer.
The judge ordered no fine or restitution, but Anderson will forfeit three cars used in the drug trafficking, and Judge Krichbaum ordered Anderson’s driver’s license suspended for five years.
In a sworn statement, Anderson said he couldn’t afford to pay a fine or restitution of $6,300 used by a c onfidential informant to buy drugs from him because he has had no income since he was fired by JJC immediately after his January arrest.
Anderson was arrested by the Mahoning Valley Law Enforcement Task Force on charges contained in a secret county grand jury indictment Dec. 13.
The drug sales occurred Oct. 4 and 6 and Nov, 3, 2006. Anderson sold drugs all over the city, but not at JJC, police said.
The county hired Anderson, who has no prior criminal record, in June 2003, and his 2007 salary was $30,742.
The sentence, which was agreed upon by the prosecution and defense, is nonappealable.