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Home-repair ripoff brings 2-year term

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A 43-year-old Marion man was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay $2,500 in restitution for corrupt business influence.

Larry Stone and two other Marion men, Edward Holt and Austin Windle, were charged in January with corrupt business influence and theft after they took money from an 82-year-old Fort Wayne woman for home repairs they never completed, according to court documents.

In exchange for his guilty plea, filed last month, prosecutors dismissed charges of home improvement fraud, theft and being a habitual offender.

Allen Superior Court Judge John Surbeck also sentenced Stone to two years on probation.

The cases against the other two men are pending.

rgreen@jg.net

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