Former Buckeye Sentenced In Phony Beverage Scheme

A former Ohio State Football player will serve more than six years in prison and pay nearly 400 thousand dollars restitution for his role in stealing investor money from a now defunct beverage company. 43-year-old Preston Harrison of Lewis Center is one of three people convicted for stealing from people who invested in a sports drink called OXYwater. Prosecutors say they lied to investors about sales and profits, then misappropriated the money for personal use.  Harrison and his 42-year-old wife Lovena are also convicted of conspiracy to defraud the government, for routing over a million dollars of investor money through her daycare business and filling false tax returns.  She was sentenced to one year in prison plus restitution. A third person convicted in the case, 40-year-old Thomas Jackson, will be sentenced on October 1.