Company pleads guilty to grand theft

Staff report

WARREN

The Brookfield contracting company Aries Resources, through statutory agent Robert P. Mild, has pleaded guilty to felony charges of grand theft and passing bad checks and was ordered to pay restitution of $86,505.

In exchange for entering the plea as a company, the same charges are being dropped against Mild individually, according to a plea agreement reached this week in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court.

The charges were filed by the Trumbull County Sheriff’s Office after the company KGM of Munster, Ind., reported that Aries Resources had hired it to perform drywall and painting at the Southlake Mall in Hobart, Ind., at a fee of $99,000, wrote a check for $45,000, but there was no money in the account, and KGM was never paid.

Mild, 43, of 7090 Stewart-Sharon Road, Brookfield, was ordered to pay restitution of $791,514 in November 2003 to Kirila Contractors and spend six months in the Warren Alternative Sentencing Program for thefts he committed against the company while working for Kirila.

Authorities said Mild, then an accountant, used Kirila Contractors’ money to buy numerous parcels of land, several houses, 17 stocks, three gas and oil wells and 13 vehicles.

Mild was convicted in September 2009 on a first-degree misdemeanor theft charge and placed on probation for one year for tapping into natural-gas wells in Brookfield.