The owner of a northeastern Ohio trucking company has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for income tax evasion. Alice Martin of Louisville, Ohio, pleaded guilty in August to various income tax evasion charges. The charges against her involved avoiding payment of income taxes related to her trucking company, Martin Logistics which was based near Canton, Ohio. Martin, 66, also is required to pay approximately $1.98 million in restitution. She was sentenced earlier this week by U.S. District Judge Donald Nugent of the Northern District of Ohio. window.googletag = window.googletag || {cmd: []}; googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.defineSlot(‘/21776187881/FW-Responsive-Main_Content-Slot1’, [[300, 100], [320, 50], [728, 90], [468, 60]], ‘div-gpt-ad-1709668545404-0’).defineSizeMapping(gptSizeMaps.banner1).addService(googletag.pubads()); googletag.pubads().enableSingleRequest(); googletag.pubads().collapseEmptyDivs(); googletag.enableServices(); }); googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-1709668545404-0′); }); The 30 months are more than the minimum 24 months requested by the U.S. Attorney’s office. According to the indictment handed down in May 2024, Martin Logistics was owned by Alice Martin and her husband, but Alice Martin “controlled all business operations.” Defense Department contractor Martin Logistics, according to the indictment, was authorized to both haul and broker freight for the U.S. Department of Defense. Most of the freight that was hauled went between the Defense Logistics Agency’s facility in New Cumberland, PA, to a Martin-owned leased trucking yard in nearby Mechanicsburg. From there, the freight might be moved to various trucks for movement to the final destination, either on a Martin Logistics trucks or to another carrier that Martin Logistics’ brokerage operations had hired. According to the indictment, around 2012 to 2013, “Martin Logistics had…
