Candidus Gets Four Years for Identity Fraud in Mercer County Court Roundup

Mercer County Common Pleas Court sentenced Robert Candidus to four years in prison Tuesday on two identity fraud counts. In separate cases, Douglas Painter received 180 days in jail and was ordered to pay restitution, while Travis Borgerding was ordered to the WORTH Center and placed on three years of community control.

Robert Candidus

Candidus received 36 months in prison on Count 1 and 12 months on Count 3. The court ordered him to serve the terms consecutively, for a total of 48 months.

Both counts charged identity fraud. The indictment listed Count 1 as a second-degree felony and Count 3 as a fifth-degree felony. The four-count indictment also included attempted theft by deception and failure to disclose personal information. The prison terms reported at Tuesday’s hearing were for the two identity fraud counts.

The court docket shows a negotiated change-of-plea entry was filed October 15. The case number is 26-CRM-024.

Douglas Painter

Painter changed his plea to guilty on Counts 2 and 4. The indictment listed Count 2 as fourth-degree felony theft and Count 4 as fourth-degree misdemeanor criminal trespass.

The court sentenced Painter to 180 days in jail on the theft count, gave him no credit for time already served and ordered him to pay $299.88 in restitution. He received 30 days in jail on the trespass count. The court ordered the two terms to run at the same time, for a total jail sentence of 180 days.

The indictment also listed burglary and a separate theft count. Painter’s case number is 26-CRM-098.

Travis Borgerding

Borgerding was ordered to the WORTH Center and placed on three years of nonresidential community control in a drug possession case. The court docket lists possession of drugs as a fifth-degree felony under Count 2.

The docket shows a negotiated change-of-plea entry was filed October 15. Borgerding’s case number is 26-CRM-089.