The owner of a former North Huntingdon auto repair shop will pay more than $50,000 in restitution to customers who paid for work that was never performed and for buying $13,000 worth of goods with bad checks.
Dean Vezzani, 43, of North Huntingdon agreed Friday to pay $400 a month in restitution to the victims, which Assistant District Attorney Theresa Miller-Sporrer calculated would take him close to 11 years to complete. In return for pleading guilty to deceptive business practices and bad checks, Vezzani was sentenced by Westmoreland Judge Meagan Bilik-Defazio to probation and time served.
