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Former Muncie Mayor Begins Prison Sentence

Thursday, December 30, 2021 12:51 PM EDT
By Alex Brown
Dennis Tyler on Inside INdiana Business with Gerry Dick in 2017. (IIB file photo)

A former mayor of Muncie has reported to prison after pleading guilty to a charge of theft of government funds. Dennis Tyler was sentenced last month to one-year in prison and the Star Press reports Tyler has begun serving that sentence at the Morgantown Federal Correctional Institution in West Virginia.

The prison is a minimum security facility for male prisoners, according to the publication.

Tyler was indicted in 2019 on charges of accepting $5,000 from a contractor in exchange for city contracts being awarded to that person’s business. The indictment came just weeks before Tyler’s second term as mayor ended.

You can read the full story from the Star Press by clicking here.

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