The former director of a Toledo-area nonprofit on Wednesday pleaded guilty in Lucas County Common Pleas Court to stealing more than $200,000 from the organization and its donors.

Thomas Ostrosky, 52, was indicted in April by a Lucas County grand jury on charges of engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity and theft from a person in a protected class, both first-degree felonies, and solicitation fraud and telecommunications fraud, a pair of second-degree felonies.

Ostrosky was subsequently arrested in Dade City, Fla., where he was living at the time.

The charges stem from Ostrosky’s management of the Lazarus Experience, a nonprofit he founded in 2017. The organization is no longer in operation. It was described as a Christian ministry providing re-entry services to incarcerated men in no

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