LOCKPORT – Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas granted a sentence of three years’ probation Friday to a burglar who didn’t quite complete the judicial diversion program of court-supervised drug treatment.
Farkas told Jordan A. Waldeck, 21, of Liberty Avenue, Town of Niagara, that she received a report that he was “marginally compliant” with diversion rules, but his two years in the program had expired and she had to sentence him despite a long list of part violations. She warned Waldeck that any violation will result in a one-year jail sentence. Waldeck’s time in diversion counts toward his probation term.
Waldeck was allowed to plead guilty to a reduced charge of second-degree criminal trespass Friday for a Sept. 22, 2011, break-in at the Sabre Park trailer park in the Town of Niagara. Sabre Park no longer exists, having been bulldozed to make way for an expansion of the Fashion Outlets mall.
Farkas told Jordan A. Waldeck, 21, of Liberty Avenue, Town of Niagara, that she received a report that he was “marginally compliant” with diversion rules, but his two years in the program had expired and she had to sentence him despite a long list of part violations. She warned Waldeck that any violation will result in a one-year jail sentence. Waldeck’s time in diversion counts toward his probation term.
Waldeck was allowed to plead guilty to a reduced charge of second-degree criminal trespass Friday for a Sept. 22, 2011, break-in at the Sabre Park trailer park in the Town of Niagara. Sabre Park no longer exists, having been bulldozed to make way for an expansion of the Fashion Outlets mall.