By Kathy Laird
CCN Correspondent
BUCYRUS — Philip Tesso Jr., 26, of Crestline was sentenced to 15 months in prison Monday. Tesso appeared with attorney Brad Starkey before Common Pleas Court Judge Sean Leuthold.
Tesso pleaded guilty to a fourth-degree felony charge of domestic violence. As a result of the plea deal, one first-degree felony charge of aggravated burglary was dropped in the case.
Tesso will not be eligible for early release. He received no fine, but was assessed court costs. He is to have no contact with the victim.
When asked if he had anything to say Tesso addressed the court.
“I’m sorry for my family and what I’ve done,” he said.
In other court proceedings, a Shiloh man said he realized very quickly that drug traffickers, real or implied, are treated harshly in Crawford County.
Randal Oney, 31, of Shiloh was sentenced to one year in prison for trafficking a counterfeit substance. Oney admitted to selling rock salt disguised at meth.
According to Oney’s own statements, he sold the rock salt for someone else.
“He got the $40, and I’m getting prison,” Oney said.
Leuthold prefaced a chuckle by noting that whether the substance is real or not, selling it as being real is a crime just the same.
“Mr. Oney, there’s an old country song that says, ‘She got the gold mine and I got the shaft.’ You got prison and someone else got the money.”
Leuthold ordered all drug-related property, including the rock salt, be forfeited to the Crawford County Sheriff’s Office.