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WILKES-BARRE — Former Exeter fire official Stephanie McNeil’s theft sentence remains essentially unchanged after a reconsideration hearing on Thursday.
Luzerne County Judge Joseph F. Sklarosky Jr. declined to modify McNeil’s sentence beyond vacating one of two 12-month probation sentences which ran alongside each other, according to court papers.
McNeil, 33, is now scheduled to report to July 20 to Luzerne County Correctional Facility, court papers say.
She was originally scheduled to begin serving her two to 12 month prison term last week, but the judge granted her a stay in response to a petition seeking a sentence modification.
The petition said the stay-at-home mother’s children required her care.
McNeil pleaded guilty in May to stealing her wheelchair-bound mother-in-law’s credit card and racking up more than $500 in charges.
She remains at the center of a separate probe of fire company finances.