Girard worker fired after theft conviction

GIRARD — A city street department worker, sentenced last week to 20 days in the Trumbull County jail for stealing from the Girard Baseball Association while he was its president, has been fired.

Randy J. O’Neill, 53, who worked for the city for about three years, appeared for a predisciplinary conference Monday morning with Jerry Lambert, Girard safety-service director, and learned later that he had been fired.

O’Neill, of Elruth Court, Girard, pleaded guilty to grand theft, a felony, in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court in April for taking money from the baseball organization while serving as president.

Judge John M. Stuard also sentenced him Thursday to three years probation, ordered him to pay back $18,150 to the baseball organization and perform 200 hours of community service. He is ordered to pay back the stolen money in monthly installments.

Judge Stuard allowed O’Neill to report to the Trumbull County jail at 9 a.m. Sept. 30.

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