A Huron County man has been sentenced to prison for stealing over $3 million in grain from close to three dozen Ohio farmers, reports WDTN.
79-year-old Richard J. Schwan, of Monroeville, OH, was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison by Huron County Common Pleas Court Judge James W. Conway.
He has also been ordered to pay $3,222,209.70 in restitution as part of his sentence. The money will be used to reimburse the farmers, the Ohio Department of Agriculture, and the Ohio Grain Indemnity Fund.
Schwan operated Schwan Grain Inc., which transported and sold grain on behalf of the 35 farmers from Erie, Huron, Lorain, Richland, and Seneca counties.
He was arrested in November after the investigation found he stole the farmers’ profits between 2012 and 2014.
