OHIO
Youngstown Vindicator
Published: Tue, April 29, 2014 @ 12:05 a.m.
By Ed Runyan
runyan@vindy.com
WARREN
The priest at Mount Carmel Catholic Church in Niles says he hopes Michael Marrara will take responsibility for the $97,000 Marrara is accused of stealing from the parish since 2007 and make restitution.
Marrara, 58, of Sayers Avenue, pleaded not guilty to a felony charge of grand theft Monday morning in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court, where Judge Peter Kontos set bond at $10,000.
Father John-Michael Lavelle said he discovered within the first two weeks of his arrival at the parish in June 2012 that Marrara, then maintenance supervisor for the church, purchased about $22 worth of pool chemicals on the church’s credit card even though the church doesn’t have a pool.
When the pastor asked him about it, Marrara said he had meant to pay back the church for the chemicals but forgot.
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