State v. Ankrom, 2006-L-124 (6-29-2007)

OPINION

{¶ 1} Appellant, Paul G. Ankrom, appeals from the judgment entry of the Lake County Court of Common Pleas, ordering him to pay restitution equal to the entire amount of the economic loss suffered by the victim of the crimes of which he was convicted, to wit, complicity to theft and complicity to breaking and entering. For the reasons below, we affirm.

{¶ 2} In the early morning of March 9, 2003, Officer Martin Turek of the Mentor Police Department noticed a black Pontiac in the parking lot of the Clark Gas Station on Mentor Avenue. The gas station was closed. A person dressed in black…