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Former village solicitor pleads to amended charge, sentenced

SEBRING — A former Sebring village solicitor has pleaded guilty to an amended charge after allegedly threatening a tenant with an ax in April of 2020.

Theresa T. Tolson, 61, 18475 Fifth St., Beloit, Thursday entered a plea of no contest to one count of unlawful restraint, a third-degree misdemeanor. According to online court dockets, she was fined $250 and sentenced to 60 days in jail (suspended), as well as placed on 12 months probation. She is not to have any contact with the victim and the ax was turned over to Goshen police for destruction.

Tolson was originally charged with aggravated menacing, a first-degree misdemeanor, after Goshen Police District officers responded to a Fifth Street, Beloit, in April of 2020 in reference to a woman threatening to shoot a male individual. She had allegedly threatened to shoot a tenant, then returned to the apartment with an ax. Tolson and another witness claimed the tenant was trafficking drugs and had been charged with drugs offenses in the past, was not paying rent and had arrived that morning to collect belongings but was refusing to leave.

A jury trial was slated to begin Tuesday before Tolson agreed to the plea deal.

Tolson was no longer the Sebring village solicitor at the time of the incident.

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