3 sentenced to jail or prison in Orleans County Court
ALBION – Three people were sentenced to incarceration in Orleans County today by Judge Sanford Church.
Cody Scharlau, 34, of Medina was sentenced to six months in the county jail, plus five years of probation for criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree.
Public defender Joanne Best asked that Scharlau just be given probation. She said he has struggled with drug addiction, and will benefit from programs required to be on probation.
Judge Church said jail was needed due to the crime.
“Possessing cocaine and drug paraphernalia is not acceptable in our community,” Church said during sentencing.
In other cases:
• Angel Marrero, 46, of Rochester was sentenced to two years in state prison and three years of post-release supervision for three burglaries in Orleans County. He also has to pay $7,253 in restitution to State Farm.
Marrero didn’t have any criminal conviction since 2009, but a recent relapse into drug addiction led to the crimes in Orleans County, Best told Judge Church.
“He admits he has severely fallen off the wagon,” Best said. “He has a pretty serious drug addiction problem.”
Marrero in June 2023 stole tools and electronics from a Ridge Road site in Murray, and then in July burglarized two sites on South Holley Road in Clarendon, stealing a generator, shotgun, jewelry and copper piping.
• Alexander Blount, 34, of Medina was sentenced to 1 to 3 years in state prison for violating his probation.
Blount was on probation for reckless endangerment in the first degree. He started a fire inside an apartment on Telegraph Road in Ridgeway that put people in danger who lived in other apartments in the building.
• Jayah Osby, 24, of Albion pleaded guilty to criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree. He faces six months in the county jail and five years of probation when he is sentenced on May 22.
Osby was charged on Aug. 21 after being searched by Albion police officers who located cocaine, marijuana and distribution bags for sale as well as $600 in cash. There was an active arrest warrant for Osby at the time.
In court today, Osby admitted he had 29 grams of cocaine.
• Jonathan Dodson, 38, ofHolley was arraigned for felony driving while intxciated and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the 1st degree. He was charged in Barre on Dec. 29.
• Lawrence Miller, 31, of Medina was arraigned for DWI, AUO in the 1st degree and resisting arrest for a rollover accident on June 25, 2023 on Maple Ridge Road.
Miller allegedly walked away from the scene of the accident, and didn’t comply with law enforcement officers near the scene.
