Appeals court delays Pellin sentence

YOUNGSTOWN

The 7th District Court of Appeals has stayed the sentence imposed on Richard M. Pellin Jr., 38, of Diamond, a former owner of the now-defunct ambulance company that bore his family’s name, pending his appeal.

Pellin was sentenced Nov. 16 to five years’ probation, with the first 60 days under electronically monitored house arrest, fined $5,000, and ordered to make restitution after being convicted of complicity to theft. Judge James C. Evans of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court imposed the sentence.

In granting the stay Friday, the appeals court noted that, had the house-arrest run its full course, it would have expired before completion of the appeal. The appeals court granted the stay conditioned upon Pellin’s $15,000 bond being continued and upon his obeying all state laws.