Youngstown men get probation for posing as fed cops

CLEVELAND — Three Youngstown residents have been put on probation after a jury convicted them of impersonating federal law enforcement officers.

Laroy Dock, 57, was placed on three years’ probation, with four months of electronically monitored house arrest.

Milton Willis, 53, and Quin Willis, 50, were put on two years’ probation, but may ask for termination of that supervision if they behave well during the first year.

Judge Donald C. Nugent of U.S. District Court imposed the sentences this morning after the defendants were convicted in an April jury trial.

The defendants appeared in a courthouse on July 27, 2011, pretending to be U.S. constables and wearing clothing indicating they were federal law enforcement officers, the federal indictment says.

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