Carley Ingram, appeals chief for the prosecutor's office, said Trammell will be subject to arrest if he doesn't show up tonight.
There's no need for an arrest warrant, she said, because there's already a court order and a failure to abide by it, which automatically makes him subject to arrest.
Trammell has been ordered to begin serving an 18-month prison sentence, despite his efforts to delay the sentence on the grounds that he is seriously ill and has less than six months to live.
Judge Michael Tucker of Montgomery County Common Pleas Court made the ruling Wednesday morning that Trammell turn himself in after completing a kidney dialysis treatment.
Tucker said he will entertain no more motions by Trammell to delay his sentence.
In court paperwork made publicly available Wednesday, Trammell's attorney filed an unsuccessful motion seeking a prison delay while he appeals his conviction to the Ohio Supreme Court.
In the motion, attorney Sandra Finucane of Columbus said Trammell is "on oxygen 24 hours a day" and "his kidneys have shut down, requiring him to undergo four hours of dialysis three times per week." Attached to the motion was a note from Trammell's physician, Dr. Morris Brown of Dayton, saying Trammell is in "end stage renal failure" and his "life expectancy is less than six months. He will continue to require frequent hospitalizations."
Carley Ingram, appellate chief for the county prosecutor's office, said, "He can get that care in the institution. He's been out 13 months since his sentencing."
After a last year trial ended in Trammell's conviction on 51 felony counts for stealing public funds from a program that was supposed to provide home-delivered meals to needy shut-ins, Trammell briefly was imprisoned. But Tucker released him pending an appeal. The appeals court ruled against Trammell on Friday.
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