Man gets probation in theft from VFW post

January 30, 2014 at 12:27p.m.

A man who pleaded guilty to stealing money from a Veterans of Foreign Wars post last year was placed on two years probation Thursday but warned if he does not pay off what he owes he will spend a year and a half in prison.

James Lottier, 73, of St. Louis Avenue, received the sentence from Judge R. Scott Krichbaum in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.

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