Former Lancaster Police Officer Dale R. Horn today was ordered to serve a local jail term of up to two years for repeatedly violating the terms of the probation imposed after he ignored court orders to stay away from his ex-wife.

Jailed again since March 1, the remorseful Horn, 52, was reminded by State Supreme Court

Justice Deborah A. Haendiges that his latest problems were of his own making.

Last July, Horn was sentenced to 60 days in jail and five years' probation after his guilty

plea to criminal contempt for violating two orders of protection obtained by his ex-wife.

Prosecutor Karen Korkuc said Horn got into trouble again Feb. 4 when county probation

officers made an unannounced visit to his home. Horn already was wearing an electronic

monitoring device under orders from the judge. The probation officers found he had police gear

that the judge had barred him for ever again owning, the prosecutor said.

Korkuc said Horn resigned from the Lancaster Police Department last June after a nearly

29-year career and most recently was operating a landscaping and snowplowing business.

Horn's problems began with his arrest April 22 in the parking lot of a social hall in

Lancaster where his then-estranged wife, who had already obtained orders of protection against

him, was attending a party.