By Gary Ogle
gogle@wbcowqel.com
A Bucyrus woman was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison Wednesday and ordered to pay more than $2 million in restitution in a mortgage fraud case.
Forty-seven-year-old Dawn Hedges was one of five people indicted in the case a little over a year ago that involved 67 properties sold at inflated prices in the Crestline and Mansfield areas. Hedges was charged with one count of bank fraud and wire fraud in a mortgage fraud scheme that cost lenders more than $2.2 million.
Hedges’ alleged role was to help conceal the true source of down payment funds. She was sentenced by Judge Donald Nugent in the U.S. District Court Northern District of Ohio, Eastern Division.
A clerk in Nugent’s office confirmed that Hedges was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison and will be supervised following her release for two years. Hedges must also pay $2,248,968 in joint and several restitution.
Hedges will be allowed to self-report to prison and will be contacted by the Federal Bureau of Prisons as to when she must begin serving that sentence.
Three of Hedges’ four co-defendants in the case of have also been sentenced for their roles. Thirty-eight-year-old Matthew Songer of Crestline is still awaiting sentencing.
Forty-year-old Kevin Barcomb of Kirtland, Ohio, was sentenced to 24 months in custody with three years of supervision following his release. Barcomb must also pay total joint and several restitution in the case.
Fifty-three-year-old Ronald Kightlinger Jr. of Crestline was sentenced six months of custody that is to run concurrent with another case. Once released, he will be supervised for three years with the first six months of that supervision in home confinement. The clerk could not confirm the amount of restitution to be paid by Kightlinger.
Forty-seven-year-old Peter Lamb of Angier, North Carolina, was sentenced to years of probation with the first eight months in home confinement. The amount of restitution owed by Lamb is $856,356.
The Mansfield office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation investigated the case and it was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Mark S. Bennett.