Liberty woman gets probation for insurance fraud

WARREN — A Liberty woman has been placed on two years of probation for attempting to defraud State Farm Insurance Co. by reporting damage to four tires and theft of four car rims from a car that was parked at Akron-Canton Regional Airport in 2007.

Judge Peter Kontos of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court issued the sentence today to Gina Pascale, 53, of Logan Gate Road. Pascale pleaded no contest in April to one count of attempted telecommunications fraud, a misdemeanor, in the case. The judge found her guilty.

Deena DeVico, an assistant county prosecutor, said prosecutors were willing to reduce the charges down to one misdemeanor from the felony charges of insurance fraud, telecommunications fraud, and theft she was indicted on because a witness to the crime has medical problems that affected her memory of the offenses.

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