Bainbridge Man Charged with Engaging in Corrupt Activity
A Geauga County grand has indicted a local business owner who is accused of using his business to secure loans with forged documents.
A Geauga County grand jury has indicted a local business owner who is accused of using his business to secure loans with forged documents.
Mark Hoehn, 68, of Bainbridge Township, was indicted on multiple charges, including one count of engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, a first-degree felony, two counts of theft from a person in a protected class, two counts of grand theft, three counts of telecommunications fraud and 28 counts of forgery.
The top count in the indictment carries a maximum potential sentence of 11 years in prison.
Geauga County Prosecutor Jim Flaiz said the charges stem from a three-month investigation Bainbridge Township police conducted into numerous financial transactions by Hoehn through his company, Odyssey Printware, located on Aurora Road.
“This was a cooperative effort spearheaded by the Bainbridge Township Police Department to stop a string of financial fraud from claiming more victims,” Flaiz said, adding the Geauga County Sheriff’s Office and prosecutor’s office investigators assisted the Bainbridge detective bureau in the investigation.
According to the indictment, from Dec. 28, 2018, to March 11, 2020, Hoehn is accused of using his business, Odyssey Printware, to secure loans from an 86-year-old Bainbridge resident utilizing forged documents.
He also is accused of securing other loans for his business through a series of unauthorized credit card charges and forged documents that victimized two other area businesses, according to police.
Hoehn is scheduled to be arraigned before Geauga County Common Pleas Court Judge Carolyn Paschke on Nov. 4 at 8:30 a.m.
