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Former Leechburg police Chief Michael Diebold pleaded guilty in Armstrong County Court on Wednesday to failing to properly register as a sex offender. Diebold, 44, was charged by state police in Armstrong County in January 2020 with two felony counts of failing to provide accurate information when he registered as
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Mike Diebold is shown in this Jan. 27, 2019, file photo following his release from Westmoreland County Prison.
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Former Leechburg police Chief Michael Diebold could soon be released from jail after a Westmoreland County judge agreed this week to grant his re-parole.
Diebold, 43, has been in jail since Dec. 9, 2019, after he was accused of violating terms of his parole from a 9-to-23-month jail sentence for sex offenses.
He pleaded guilty in December 2018 to charges that he attempted to solicit sex via the internet from an undercover agent posing as a 14-year-old girl.