A former Pocono area police officer already serving time in a 2022 bribery and obstruction of justice case has been sentenced to up to three years in prison for a charge of providing false testimony at trial.
Steven Paul Mertz, 59, of Mahoning Township, Carbon County and formerly a corporal with the Pocono Mountain Regional Police Department, was found guilty in 2022 of felony bribery and misdemeanor obstruction of justice.
In that case, Monroe County Court of Common Pleas Judge Stephen M. Higgins sentenced Mertz to 30 to 60 months in state prison, followed by two years of probation, and ordered he have no contact with the victim…