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As part of Mark Haney’s plea agreement, the state reduced the theft in office charge to theft, a fifth-degree felony, and dropped the tampering with records charges<\/p>\n
Former Uhrichsville Mayor Mark Haney has pleaded guilty to charges of theft and soliciting improper compensation.<\/p>\n Haney entered the plea during a hearing Monday in Tuscarawas County Common Pleas Court. <\/p>\n The former mayor had originally been charged with one count of theft in office, a fourth-degree felony; two counts of tampering with records, a third-degree felony; and one count of soliciting improper compensation, a first-degree misdemeanor.<\/p>\n As part of a plea agreement, the state reduced the theft in office charge to theft, a fifth-degree felony, and dropped the tampering with records charges.<\/p>\n Officials with the city of Uhrichsville were consulted in the decision. The state will be asking for compensation for the city\u2019s loss.<\/p>\n Judge Michael Ernest told Haney that the theft charge carries a possible sentence of six to 12 months in prison and a fine of up to $2,500. The soliciting improper compensation charge carries a jail sentence of up to 180 days and a $1,000 fine.<\/p>\n However, the state is requesting that Haney be placed on probation.<\/p>\n Haney, who served one term as mayor from 2019 to 2023, was indicted by the Tuscarawas County grand jury in July 2025 on the original four charges. <\/p>\n The Auditor of State\u2019s Special Investigations Unit launched an investigation in January 2024 after receiving a complaint alleging Haney improperly received reimbursements for meals, mileage and other purchases and that he had used city credit cards on personal purchases.<\/p>\n Sentencing has been scheduled for 1 p.m. May 18.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yourohionews.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As part of Mark Haney’s plea agreement, the state reduced the theft in office charge to theft, a fifth-degree felony, and dropped the tampering with records charges Former Uhrichsville Mayor Mark Haney, left, and his attorney, Christopher Delacruz, attend a hearing Monday in Tuscarawas County Common Pleas Court in which Haney pleaded guilty to two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2384120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2384119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Former-Uhrichsville-mayor-Mark-Haney-pleads-guilty-to-theft-improper.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2384119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2384121,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384119\/revisions\/2384121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2384120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2384119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2384119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2384119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}