Howland man gets more prison time for violation of probation

The original gun charge behind the probation violations involved a visit to the Howland police chief’s home.

STAFF REPORT

WARREN — Paul Pollis, the 42-year-old city man sent to prison for a year in 2007 for violating his probation, has been sentenced to 18 more months in prison for violating probation again.

Pollis, of Hoffman Circle Northeast, has made news numerous times in recent years.

He was arrested May 17 and has been in Trumbull County Jail since then for testing positive for marijuana and failing to appear for appointments with his probation officer for about six months, said Chris Becker, assistant Trumbull County prosecutor.

Pollis will receive credit for the time he spent in the county lockup since May.

In May 2005, he showed up unannounced at Howland Police Chief Paul Monroe’s house, gave the chief a false name and asked whether Monroe knew where Pollis’ first wife was.

Pollis had reported Charlotte Nagi-Pollis missing in March 1994. At the time, the couple lived in Girard. Nagi-Pollis has not been found.

When Pollis drove off from Monroe’s house, the chief called Howland officers, who arrested Pollis and found a handgun between the driver’s seat and the console.

In 2007, Pollis was implicated but later had charges dismissed against him in a case involving another wife, Deborah Toda, who was convicted of stealing $1.6 million from the North Central Pennsylvania Dialysis Clinic on Market Street in Boardman, where she worked as an accountant.

Toda is serving a 25-year prison term for the crimes.

Pollis was sentenced to five years’ probation in March 2006 for the incident at Monroe’s house.

The first time Pollis violated his probation was Feb. 24, 2006, when he fled from Warren police on Market Street near Forum Health Trumbull Memorial Hospital.

Events in the life of Paul Pollis:

March 1994: Pollis’ first wife, Charlotte Nagi-Pollis, comes up missing. She has not been found.

March 2006: Pollis was sentenced to five years’ probation in for showing up unannounced at Howland Police Chief Paul Monroe’s house, and being found with a gun in the console of his car a short time later.

March 17, 2007: Paul Pollis’ second wife, Deborah Toda, is sentenced to 25 years in prison for stealing $1.6 million from a Boardman dialysis clinic where she worked as an accountant.

March 27, 2007: Pollis is sentenced to a year in prison for violating his probation by failing to stop for police and other offenses on Market Street near Forum Health Trumbull Memorial Hospital in February 2006.

May 17, 2009: Pollis is arrested on probation violation for failing a drug test and failing to report for meetings with his probation officer.

Source: Vindicator files