NORWICH – A man accused of practicing dentistry without a license was sentenced in county court - while others appeared for the purpose of arraignment and sex offender designation.

• Victor Nino, 59, Nassau County, was sentenced to four months incarceration in the Chenango County Correctional Facility to be followed by five years of probation, and the payment of $26,279.29 in restitution for his convection on one count of third degree grand larceny, a class D felony. Nino was also sentenced to a three-year conditional discharge for unauthorized practice, a class E felony.

It was alleged that Nino and an accomplice were running an unlicensed dentist’s office on county Route. 39 in the Town of Afton. They were subsequently arrested by the New York State Police working in tandem with the New York State Office of the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit in early May of 2011.