Guitierrez gets holidays, plus in Columbus jail

COLUMBUS — Anthony Gutierrez will spend part of Christmas and New Year’s and about a dozen other weekends in a Columbus jail as punishment for crimes committed while working as a manager under Attorney General Marc Dann.

Gutierrez was sentenced today to 45 days in the Franklin County jail, to be served over consecutive weekends starting Dec. 4. He also has to pay $6,876 in restitution for Bureau of Workers Compensation violations related to his home remodeling business and remain under court supervision for five years.

Gutierrez spoke briefly during today’s hearing before Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Laurel Beatty, apologizing to the court for his actions, the center of the scandal that led to Dann’s resignation.

“I’d like to apologize to my family, to my wife,” he said, the latter of whom was in court for the hearing.

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