Man gets almost a year in jail for stealing electricity

YOUNGSTOWN — Judge Elizabeth Kobly thinks Arthur Bledsoe has a problem with his memory, so she made sure today he will have something to remember her by.

Bledsoe, 60, of Kiwatha Road, was sentenced to almost a year in the Mahoning County jail on a charge of theft for stealing his neighbor’s electricity for two weeks.

He also was sentenced for a probation violation because he was on probation for another theft offense at the time he was arrested for stealing the electricity.

He entered a plea of no contest to the theft charge in municipal court, where he also was on probation for receiving stolen property. Besides violating his probation with the theft charge, Bledsoe also was in violation because he failed to report to probation.

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