Salem man gets 2.5 years for defrauding elderly man, mail theft charge dropped
A federal judge on Friday sentenced a Salem man to two and a half years in prison for defrauding an elderly man out of $16,000.
The sentence comes three months after Ross B. Sierzega, 34, pleaded guilty on July 11 in Portland U.S. District Court to bank fraud and aggravated identity theft.
As part of Sierzega’s plea deal, federal prosecutors dismissed additional charges alleging that he stole at least three times from a Keizer mailbox.…
