A federal judge sentenced 44-year-old Brooks Duester of Ravenna, was sentenced to five years of federal probation and 10 weekends of intermittent confinement to be served within one year. In addition, Duester was ordered to pay retribution to Asthon State bank in $569,332.80.
Duester had pled guilty April 2022 to defrauding the Ashton State Bank by misrepresenting to the bank the number of sheep in his breeding operation and misrepresenting that sheep died of various natural causes when in reality Duester sold the sheep and kept the sales proceeds for himself instead of repaying his bank loans.
