The State - News from April 4, 1985

The former chief deputy director of the state Office of Economic Opportunity was ordered to undergo psychiatric testing before being sentenced for stealing $67,500 in anti-poverty funds. Herbert Clayton, 36, and his co-defendant, former Bay Area Preparatory Program executive director Ona Solon, 64, pleaded no contest several weeks ago to felony charges of having converted the funds, which were to have benefited Solon’s program, to their own uses. Solon was placed on five years’ probation, fined $10,000 and ordered to spend eight weekends in jail. Clayton could be sentenced to prison for up to four years, and prosecutors asked for the maximum term. But Sacramento Superior Court Judge Rothwell Mason ordered Clayton to undergo a 90-day mental evaluation in the state medical facility at Vacaville to help determine appropriate sentencing.