Judges: Restitution orders in two cases unlikely to be paid

Two local people in two substantial cases of fraud were sentenced to repay their victims $34,000 each in courts last month but the judges admitted there is little chance the funds will ever be paid.Anthony J. Powless, 56, and Trisha L. Ladd, 44, were convicted of fraud over $5,000 just days apart, receiving almost identical sentences.Each were sentenced to a year-long community sentence order with GPS monitoring, house arrest for the first six months, followed by six months of a tight curfew.An