Sentenced issued
Dallas James Croasmun, 53, of Waynesburg was sentenced Thursday in Greene County Court to restorative sanctions and ordered to pay $9,800 in restitution for conspiring to steal a used mine belt in February 2002, according to Greene County District Attorney Marjorie Fox. Croasmun was sentenced to 231/2 months of restorative sanctions, which is a form of intermediate punishment that does not include confinement, and restitution.
In October, a jury found him guilty of one felony count of conspiracy to commit theft, but acquitted him of five other felony theft charges and three felony conspiracy charges.
He was found guilty of conspiring with two others to steal a mine belt valued at $9,800 from the Enlow Fork Mine in Richhill Township, where he worked as an outside mine foreman.
State police initially charged him with 58 theft and conspiracy charges, but most were dismissed at a 2002 preliminary hearing and his first trial in 2003.
He appealed his conviction on the remaining charges to Superior Court, which granted him a new trial.