Former Federal Way school board member Tony Moore was sentenced to six months of prison time with five years probation for each count on Tuesday at Multnomah County Courthouse in Portland, Oregon.

Moore was found guilty of seven counts of felony theft on April 18 after a grand jury determined he stole $150,000 worth of semi-truck tires from Portland-based GCR Tires in 2011.

Moore was ordered to serve the first 90 days in prison and the second 90 days non-consecutively before Dec. 1, 2015.

He will be ordered to pay restitution at a later hearing.

The GCR Tire’s manager addressed the court before Moore was sentenced, stating he suffered from the crime that occurred on his business.

“This act, the crime that I believe occurred, caused me so much mental and physical pain,” the manager said.

He said he had a good working relationship with Moore but felt he was personally attacked during the trial, as he said accusations were falsely made against him.

Dennis Shen, the Multnomah County deputy district attorney, recommended Judge Thomas M. Ryan give Moore 76 months of prison time with 60 months of formal probation.

Shen said that it shouldn’t be ignored that because Moore was a seemingly good person, that he did not commit the crimes.

“When I look back on the trial …  it seems like the underlying crux of the defense … is he’s a good person and somehow because of that, he deserves preferential treatment,” Shen said. “He’s a good person and because what came out in trial was he’s a good person, he could not have done this but we know from the trial that he in fact did do this.”

David McDonald, Moore’s new lawyer, pleaded with the judge to allow Moore to forgo prison time and spend it instead on probation so that he could continue to work to pay off restitution. Furthermore, he was prepared to give the court $10,000 upfront and $2,000 a month if the court would allow.

“Mr. Moore’s the soul operator and proprietor of his business,” McDonald said. “Since the incident, he’s continued to be part of that business. He’s been under the scrutiny of anybody who wants to look at him. And he has operated that business free from any accusations whatsoever that he’s done anything wrong.”

McDonald said people have continued to do business with Moore, even two customers who testified at the trial.

But ultimately, Ryan ruled on the six months for the felony charges. Moore’s wife Trisa and family members each hugged him before he was taken away in handcuffs.

Moore owns William A. Moore Jr. Inc., a family-owned tire wholesaler based in Federal Way. He salvaged used tires from the store’s junk pile and would retread the tires for his business.

During the trial in April, the prosecuting attorney said Moore approached a company official in 2011 and asked if he could look through the company’s pile of unusable junk tires that did not meet GCR’s standards.

The official told Moore he was welcome to take tires for free that the company would not use, as long as he did so under the direction of Tracy E. Holmquist, the company’s yard manager.

Holmquist was later convicted of seven charges of aggravated theft and recently served 19 months in prison.

One of GCR’s big customers Interstate Distributor Co. stored its semi-truck tires at GCR’s Oregon plant “under lock and key,” a prosecutor said at the trial.

But when Interstate Distributor Co. officials asked for an inventory check of its tires, a GCR official “went out into the yard and looked around and he knew where the tires were kept and to his amazement, instead of seeing a vehicle with thousands of anticipated tires, he saw about 200 — a huge decrease in the amount of Interstate Distributor Co. tires they should have,” the prosecuting attorney noted.

Moore was arrested Sept. 17, 2013 at SeaTac Airport as he boarded a plane to Amsterdam on a trip sponsored by the school district. He was released from King County Jail on Sept. 20 after posting a $50,000 bond.

He hired a new attorney immediately following his conviction on April 18, according to his previous attorney Robert Callahan. The judge allowed the sentencing hearing to be rescheduled from July to August and finally to September to allow for both parties to prepare for the hearing.

Tony Moore and his attorney go over paperwork following Moore’s sentencing, while the bailiffs wait to put him in handcuffs on Tuesday morning at the Multnomah County Courthouse in Portland, Oregon. Greg Allmain, the Mirror

Tony Moore signs sentencing paperwork following his sentencing hearing on Tuesday morning at the Multnomah County Courthouse in Portland, Oregon. Greg Allmain, the Mirror

Tony Moore and his attorney face the judge during Moore’s sentencing on Tuesday morning at the Multnomah County Courthouse in Portland, Oregon. Greg Allmain, the Mirror