WARREN — A former Warren G. Harding football standout who was charged with animal cruelty May 15 and whose dog died from starvation will not spend any time in jail.

Omar Provitt, 53, of Warren, pleaded guilty Tuesday to a first-degree misdemeanor count of cruelty to companion animals before Warren Municipal Court Judge Patricia Knepp. He was sentenced to 180 days in jail, with 179 days suspended and credit for one day served.

He also was sentenced to five years of probation, during which he is prohibited from owning any animals, court records show.

Charges against Provitt were filed by Jason Cooke, CEO of the Healthy Hearts & Paws Project in Warren, after a severely underweight and dehydrated dog was rescued from a property on Jackson Street on May 15. Cooke said the dog refused to eat or drink even while under the care of his agency and at the veterinarian’s office.

The dog died later that day during surgery from what Cooke said was complications of “chronic starvation.”

Provitt was a do-it-all receiver for the 1990 Warren G. Harding Raiders football team

that captured the Division I state championship in the first year of the merger of Harding and Western Reserve High schools, according to newspaper archives.