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Sentencing Court

The following sentences were handed down Thursday by President Judge Thomas Doerr:

Saleem Boyd, 38, of Pittsburgh was sentenced to 27 to 72 months in jail after pleading guilty Aug. 8 to two counts of drug possession with an intent to sell or manufacture heroin.

Police arrested Boyd April 3, when bags of what they suspected were heroin fell out of his pants pocket while an officer responding to a call for suspicious activity was questioning him near Father Marinaro Park.

Brian Vlassich, 37, of Butler was sentenced to 16 to 32 months of incarceration for attempted robbery of a motor vehicle on Feb. 2. He was also ordered to pay more than $31,000 in restitution to the insurance company Hartford. Vlassich received credit for 217 days time-served. Vlassich was also sentenced to 2 to 4 months in jail on a charge of institutional vandalism.

Vlassich was arrested in February, after he attempted to carjack two people and illegally board a school bus carrying a kindergarten student. He was initially charged with attempted robbery of a motor vehicle, a felony count of theft of a motor vehicle and receiving stolen property.

Alexander Grattan, 24, of Cranberry Township was sentenced to 60 months of probation and 90 days in the county’s Intermediate Punishment Program, and ordered to pay fines of $2,500 and $1,000 and complete 150 hours of community service.

Grattan pleaded guilty Aug. 7 to DUI — third offense and driving with a suspended license.

Jacob Seybert, 23, of Butler was sentenced to 12 months of probation and ordered to pay a total of $1,300 in fines and complete 60 hours of community service.

Seybert pleaded guilty Aug. 21 to DUI, defiant trespass, harassment and disorderly conduct.

Steven Scott Defelice, 33, of Butler, pleaded guilty to theft by deception and was sentenced to 3 to 12 months imprisonment and ordered to pay a $100 fine.

Michael Bure, 37, was sentenced to three months of probation for criminal conspiracy and ordered to pay restitution that couldn’t be immediately determined.

Christopher R. Perrone, 25, was sentenced to 3 to 60 months in the county’s Intermediate Punishment Program, 4 months of which will be served at Butler County Prison and another 6 months of which will be served on house arrest.

Perrone pleaded guilty Aug. 8 to DUI — fourth offense and driving with a suspended license.

Jarrod N. Warner, 38, of Hilliards was sentenced to 60 months in the county’s Intermediate Punishment Program and ordered to complete 100 hours of community service and pay a $1,500 fine.

Warner pleaded guilty Aug. 8 to DUI — controlled substance, his second DUI offense.

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