AUBURN - A local dentist received a three-year conditional discharge when she was sentenced in Cayuga County Court Tuesday for giving her common-law husband forged prescriptions for Oxycontin, Oxycodon and Vicodin.
Cayuga County Judge Mark Fandrich said the only other punishment he would impose on Gilda Jusino-Delpozo, 47, of 19 Cayuga St., Auburn, was to prevent her from writing prescriptions for the next three years. Jusino-Delpozo could also have had her license revoked.
“Because of your community service you deserve some mercy, and I am going to give it to you,” Fandrich said.
When she pleaded guilty on April 1, Jusino-Delpozo said she met her husband, who was a corrections officer at Auburn Correctional Facility, while she was practicing dentistry in the prison. After her husband began visiting a neurologist for migraines, Jusino-Delpozo said she was worried he would become addicted to the medicine the doctor prescribed, so she attempted to monitor what he was using.
After Jusino-Delpozo pleaded guilty, Fandrich told her that if she completed 300 hours of community service providing free dentistry services, he would consider the conditional discharge instead of shock probation, which would have required some time in jail.
During the sentencing, Fandrich said Jusino-Delpozo completed 315 hours of community service, and that he had also received several letters of recommendation from the organizations that she worked with.
“The Salvation Army said you were an excellent worker and they were pleased to have you work for them,” Fandrich said.
Also in court:
€ An Auburn teen was denied youthful offender status when he was sentenced to one to three years in prison for burglarizing an 87-year-old woman's home while she was sleeping.
Cayuga County District Attorney Jon Budelmann said that Matthew Crawford, 19, of A-9 Brogan Manor, Auburn, had already received youthful offender status for a previous petit larceny conviction, and requested that Fandrich treat Crawford as an adult on his current charge.
“I can't imagine the fear in the (victim's) mind as she saw people standing over her and taking her purse and car,” Budelmann said. “He has already had one youthful offender for larceny, and this is his fourth arrest which has been resolved with charges.”
Even though Crawford said he found God while he was held in the Cayuga County Jail and that he wanted to help children avoid the same mistakes he made, Fandrich denied the youthful offender status due to Crawford's lengthy history.
Fandrich also said Crawford would be required to pay $260 in restitution for the victim, who was present in court to watch the sentencing.
€ A local man pleaded guilty to felony conspiracy for his roll in a scheme to help a county jail inmate raise money for bail.
Joshua Abrams, 29, of 2219 Saxton Road, Venice Center, admitted that he called several pawn shops between April and May to determine which ones would purchase stolen merchandise.
Abrams then said he and Jessi L. Vasquez, 19, of 656 School St., Skaneateles Falls, planned to burglarize a Cato home to steal pre-selected items, which included a TV and other electronic equipment, that they could sell to the pawn shops to raise bail money for inmate Eduardo Camacho.
Camacho was sentenced to prison for his role in the scheme after he pleaded guilty to false impersonation and identity theft. Camacho admitted on Aug. 21 that he posed as a member of the district attorney's office to steal residents' personal identification information, which he planned to use to raise bail.
Abrams is expecting to receive five years of shock probation with the first six months spent in the county jail when he is sentenced on Nov. 25. The plea deal would satisfy another felony charge for selling drugs in Venice and would run concurrent with any sentence Abrams' received from Auburn City Court for petit larceny.
€ James Fulks III, 37, of 8089 Barnes Road, Port Byron, pleaded not guilty to two felony drinking-and-driving charges.
Staff writer Nate Robson can be reached at 253-5311 ext. 248 or nathan.robson@lee.net
“Because of your community service you deserve some mercy, and I am going to give it to you,” Fandrich said.
When she pleaded guilty on April 1, Jusino-Delpozo said she met her husband, who was a corrections officer at Auburn Correctional Facility, while she was practicing dentistry in the prison. After her husband began visiting a neurologist for migraines, Jusino-Delpozo said she was worried he would become addicted to the medicine the doctor prescribed, so she attempted to monitor what he was using.
After Jusino-Delpozo pleaded guilty, Fandrich told her that if she completed 300 hours of community service providing free dentistry services, he would consider the conditional discharge instead of shock probation, which would have required some time in jail.
During the sentencing, Fandrich said Jusino-Delpozo completed 315 hours of community service, and that he had also received several letters of recommendation from the organizations that she worked with.
“The Salvation Army said you were an excellent worker and they were pleased to have you work for them,” Fandrich said.
Also in court:
€ An Auburn teen was denied youthful offender status when he was sentenced to one to three years in prison for burglarizing an 87-year-old woman's home while she was sleeping.
Cayuga County District Attorney Jon Budelmann said that Matthew Crawford, 19, of A-9 Brogan Manor, Auburn, had already received youthful offender status for a previous petit larceny conviction, and requested that Fandrich treat Crawford as an adult on his current charge.
“I can't imagine the fear in the (victim's) mind as she saw people standing over her and taking her purse and car,” Budelmann said. “He has already had one youthful offender for larceny, and this is his fourth arrest which has been resolved with charges.”
Even though Crawford said he found God while he was held in the Cayuga County Jail and that he wanted to help children avoid the same mistakes he made, Fandrich denied the youthful offender status due to Crawford's lengthy history.
Fandrich also said Crawford would be required to pay $260 in restitution for the victim, who was present in court to watch the sentencing.
€ A local man pleaded guilty to felony conspiracy for his roll in a scheme to help a county jail inmate raise money for bail.
Joshua Abrams, 29, of 2219 Saxton Road, Venice Center, admitted that he called several pawn shops between April and May to determine which ones would purchase stolen merchandise.
Abrams then said he and Jessi L. Vasquez, 19, of 656 School St., Skaneateles Falls, planned to burglarize a Cato home to steal pre-selected items, which included a TV and other electronic equipment, that they could sell to the pawn shops to raise bail money for inmate Eduardo Camacho.
Camacho was sentenced to prison for his role in the scheme after he pleaded guilty to false impersonation and identity theft. Camacho admitted on Aug. 21 that he posed as a member of the district attorney's office to steal residents' personal identification information, which he planned to use to raise bail.
Abrams is expecting to receive five years of shock probation with the first six months spent in the county jail when he is sentenced on Nov. 25. The plea deal would satisfy another felony charge for selling drugs in Venice and would run concurrent with any sentence Abrams' received from Auburn City Court for petit larceny.
€ James Fulks III, 37, of 8089 Barnes Road, Port Byron, pleaded not guilty to two felony drinking-and-driving charges.
Staff writer Nate Robson can be reached at 253-5311 ext. 248 or nathan.robson@lee.net
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