Former car dealer gets probation, must pay restitution

YOUNGSTOWN — A former area car dealer will spend the next five years on probation and pay restitution of more than $30,000.

Buddy Harvey, 43, of Berlin Center, appeared today before Judge John Durkin of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court for sentencing on six counts of theft and one count of defrauding creditors.

Harvey was facing 63 counts in what authorities said was an automobile-dealing fraud scheme. They consisted of 43 theft counts, 15 title offenses, three records-tampering counts and one count each of defrauding creditors and passing bad checks. All 63 counts are felonies.

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