04
September
FORMER JUDGE PLEADS GUILTY TO TRANSPORTING A WOMAN FROM WESTERN NEW YORK TO KENTUCKY FOR THE PURPOSE OF ENGAGING IN PROSTITUTION
FBI
Ronald H. Tills, a 73 year old State Supreme Court Judge from Hamburg, New York, is chargedwith knowingly transporting a female in interstate commerce with the intent that the female engagein prostitution (Mann Act). The charge carries a maximum penalty of ten years in prison, afine of $250,000 or both. He pleaded guilty. Tills admitted that in late October 2005,he, John Trowbridge, Michael Stebick, and others, transported a woman from the Western New Yorkarea to Kentucky and intended for the woman to engage in prostitution in Kentucky with members