Former Putnam County Commissioner Steve Deweese was sentenced on Wednesday, February 12, to one year of probation and agreed to pay $4,000 in restitution for funds that were misappropriated while he was sheriff.

Last November, Deweese chose to enter a plea agreement in which he did not admit guilt but agreed to resign from his county commission seat and pay $4,000 in restitution, promise never to run for public office again, and to being sentenced for a guilty plea on one count of misdemeanor fraudulent schemes. In absence of the plea agreement, the case would have been presented to a grand jury for possible indictment on charges, that upon trial and conviction, could be punishable by up to a year in jail, a fine of up to $2,500, or both a fine and confinement.