Bath Man Hit With Felony After Falsifying Court Documents

Dalton G. Smith, 83, of Bath, was found guilty of forgery, a fifth-degree felony, on Monday in the Summit County Court of Common Pleas.

Judge Tom Parker reached the verdict following a bench trial.

"In an effort to evict a tenant from a property in Barberton, Smith created a fake court order supposedly signed by Judge Alison McCarty in which the tenant was ordered to pay damages to Smith," said April Wiesner, director of communication for Summit County Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh, in a prepared statement. "The tenant found the forged document on his kitchen table."

Smith was sentenced to one year of community control and was ordered not to fake any more court documents.