A 66-year-old man has been sentenced for hacking into the Lebanon County prothonotary/clerk of courts bank account and stealing more than $1,200.
President Judge John C. Tylwalk sentenced Robert A. Delcarpio, no permanent address, to the nine months he had already served to two years in county prison and fined him $600 for one count of theft by deception. The judge also ordered Delcarpio to pay restitution of $1,264.
Authorities said Delcarpio tried unsuccessfully to withdraw almost $13,250 from the row office’s bank account at the Lebanon Federal Credit Union from May to August in 2008.
“Mr. Delcarpio’s actions caused a great deal of wasted man hours making countless phone calls to Verizon and its many departments, e-mails to Verizon, in addition to the many phone calls, e-mails and meetings with the Lebanon Federal Credit Union in order to resolve this matter,” Lebanon County Prothonotary/Clerk of Courts Lisa Arnold said, “time which would have been better spent conducting the business of two very busy offices.”
Arnold made the remarks in a victim impact statement she read in court at Delcarpio’s sentencing hearing Wednesday.
“Mr. Delcarpio’s actions at the very least impugned my personal reputation as well as the reputation of the office of the prothonotary/clerk of courts of Lebanon County and my staff,” she said in her statement.
Arnold said there was no way to anticipate what Delcarpio did until it had already been done.
Arnold asked Tylwalk
to prohibit Delcarpio from owning or having access to a computer while he is on parole. The judge did not include that prohibition as part of his sentence.
Tylwalk said Delcarpio had already served his minimum sentence and made him immediately eligible for parole.
Delcarpio was to be returned to New York to face unrelated charges in that state. He was in a New York prison at the time the Lebanon County charges were filed, according to court records.
As part of a plea agreement, 14 counts of criminal use of a telephone and one count each of receiving stolen property, unlawful use of a computer, computer theft and computer trespass were dismissed.
According to the criminal complaint against Delcarpio, Arnold discovered on Aug. 25, 2008, numerous unauthorized withdrawals from her office’s credit union account and alerted county detectives about the unauthorized withdrawals.
A county detective obtained printouts of prothonotary/clerk of courts accounts that showed 14 unauthorized withdrawals using an electronic pay-by-phone method into accounts held by Delcarpio.
Credit union records showed $1,832.93 had been transferred to accounts held by Delcarpio, and he tried to get an additional $13,250. Those transfers were subsequently denied.
Delcarpio also was charged with forgery, access-device fraud and theft by deception in connection with two other incidents.
He was charged with presenting counterfeit checks to the city’s treasurer’s office and Strickler’s Insurance between Feb. 26 and March 12, 2003.
Judge Samuel A. Kline signed an order on Aug. 11 of this year dismissing those charges because Delcarpio was not brought to trial in those cases within 180 days from the time he was taken into custody. Delcarpio was living in the 100 block of North 10th Street in Lebanon in 2003, according to court records.
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