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WILKES-BARRE — A former Luzerne County correctional officer wants a lighter sentence for selling oxycodone.
John Taffera, 40, of Larksville, filed a motion, Tuesday asking Luzerne County Judge David W. Lupas to reduce his sentence from two to four months in Luzerne County Correctional Facility followed by 10 months of house arrest to a sentence in the county’s Intermediate Punishment Program (IPP) beginning with a term of home confinement.
Taffera was one of 13 nabbed last year in a state Office of Attorney General steroid-ring roundup dubbed “Operation Gym Candy.” His motion argues his sentence is higher than those of other defendants also charged in the same case.
The document specifically mentions three defendants, all of whom were sentenced to terms in IPP on anabolic steroid charges.
Taffera filed the motion through his attorney Joseph D’Andrea.