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Vince Urbin

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Beleaguered Former Mayor’s Home up for Sheriff’s Sale

Vince Urbin's Fredricksberg Drive home set for Feb. 20 sheriff's sale.

Former Avon Lake mayor Vince Urbin’s Fredericksberg Drive home is in foreclosure and set for a sheriff’s sale. The Lorain County Sheriff’s Office has scheduled a sale of the home at 172 Fredricksberg Drive for Feb. 20. (Note: Sales can be cancelled prior to auction.) Urbin owns the house with his wife, Evelyn. The home has been appraised at  $174,000. A minimum bid is set at $116,000. Urbin held the city’s top office from Oct. 5, 1992 through his resignation March 7, 2001. At the time of his resignation, he had been charged with several felony counts. He was ultimately found guilty of tampering with evidence, complicity to tampering with evidence and two counts of unlawful interest in a public contract. Urbin was sentenced to supervised …

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Former Mayor Vince Urbin Busted in Prostitution Sting

Urbin pleads no contest, found guilty July 1. Will spend one day in jail.

Avon Lake’s former mayor, Vince Urbin, was arrested following a prostitution sting in Bowling Green June 30. Urbin pleaded no contest to one charge of solicitation, a third degree on July 1 in Bowling Green Municipal Court, was found guilty and fined $500, sentenced to 31 days in jail with 30 days suspended. Bowling Green’s ABC affiliate, WTVG, first reported the story of the sting. The Wood County Sheriff's Department arrested five people in a prostitution sting at a Bowling Green hotel on June 30. Urbin reportedly pleaded “no contest” to the charges of solicitation after answering an ad on a website by undercover officers posing as women selling sex. Reports indicate Urbin agreed to pay $100 to have sex in a motel in East Wooster Street …

Dave D

12:17 pm on Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Nothing is ever really "expunged". If it was, how could we know his record was expunged, and what the "expunged" charges are. Too bad he wasn't a president, governor, or congressman, he could've just said he was sorry.   more ›

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