UPDATE: Amber Plavi was sentenced this morning to 4 months to two years less a day in Indiana County Jail, but because she has already served four months in jail waiting for the trial, she was sentenced to time served, and was paroled immediately.
Meanwhile, James Crossman was sentenced to two years probation, a $500 fine and $300 in court costs.
WHAT WAS FIRST REPORTED
In Indiana County Court today, numerous defendants are scheduled for sentencing.
Among them is 33-year-old Amber Plavi of Indiana, who in May pleaded guilty to criminal solicitation to commit burglary, in exchange for non-prosecution for solicitation to commit homicide and aggravated assault.
Plavi was charged in January with trying to hire a hit man to kill her estranged fiancé, offering him $80,000 from the life insurance of the intended victim. Investigators said that Plavi wanted the hit man to use had a nine-millimeter handgun that she had stolen from the victim’s pickup truck, and that she planned to leave a door open for the hit man to enter her fiance’s home. Police were tipped off by a confidential informant.
Other sentencing scheduled today include the case of 32-year-old James William Crossman of Clymer, who pleaded guilty to misdemeanor indecent assault of a person less than thirteen years of age, in exchange for non-prosecution on felony charges of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a person under age sixteen and corruption of minors. The offenses occurred in April, 2011 and the charges were filed last December.
Drug defendants due for sentencing include:
- 26-year-old Cepeda Dobbs, for felony use of a communication device.
- 21-year-old Olivia DePaul of Blairsville, for two cases – one for possession with intent to deliver in October of 2015; the other for conspiracy to retail theft in December of last year.
- 28-year-old Clifton Hardison and 28-year-old Jessika Shipton of Indiana, both for possession with intent to deliver in related cases.
- 21-year-old Ronnie Yocum Jr. of Indiana, for possession with intent to deliver.
- 56-year-old Robert Chisholm of Blairsville, for possession with intent to deliver in two cases
Three defendants – Robsyl Richardson, Adam Leach, and Warren Miller Jr. – will be sentenced in theft cases.
