Excerpted from above-referenced news story.:
"Theodore “Ted” Martin, 54, was sentenced to five years in prison in Portage County Common Pleas Court today after pleading guilty to 41 felony and misdemeanor charges related to his ownership of Grandview Memorial Park cemetery in Ravenna Township.
The prison term will run consecutive to the 5 years he is currently serving for swindling customers of his other Ohio cemetery in Delaware County and the one-year and one-day term he’s serving in federal prison for tax evasion.
Martin and his wife, Arminda, sold “pre-need” contracts including caskets, headstones and other burial merchandise to their customers, then failed to provide most of the merchandise. They also forged or faked cemetery records to cover up the alleged crimes, according to Vigluicci, the Portage County Sheriff’s Office and the Ohio Department of Commerce, all of whom investigated the claims. "
