Judge maintains Brian Hatfield's sentence in EMS scheme - Zanesville Times Recorder
Attired in a white T-shirt and navy shorts, Brian T. Hatfield sat once again before Judge Kelly Cottrill in the common pleas court room, nine months after he was sentenced for his part in the misuse of a half million dollars in public funds at a... The Fifth-District Court of Appeals remanded the case back to the Muskingum County Common Pleas Court in July for lack of sufficient findings for the consecutive sentence totaling six and a half years on three counts: Money laundering, a... Hatfield admitted to using $345,000 in department funds to buy himself a Dodge Charger, $1,000 in clothes, 12 big screen televisions, and several computers, said Scott Longo, of the Attorney General’s Office, on Monday in court. Hatfield will serve 30 months for money laundering, 12 months for the fourth-degree felony of theft, and 36 months for the third-degree felony of theft. Cottrill ordered that those sentences run consecutively for 78 months in prison, a rejection of the defense’s motion to run the sentence concurrently for 36 months. Source: www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com
