It appears the self-proclaimed “Wizard of Folcroft” will need one final magic act to escape going to jail.

For decades, Anthony Truscello literally was the law in the tiny borough. Now he finds himself on the other side.

Truscello served as the district justice in Folcroft for years, often dispensing his own version of homestyle justice. He rubbed more than a few people the wrong way during his reign. After he retired to become a senior magisterial district judge, he kept his hand in borough affairs as manager.

But officials from the state attorney general’s office say he crossed the line when he apparently took sides in a nasty race for his old district judge seat, which was then held by his daughter. Truscello, along with former borough council Vice President Joseph Zito, were convicted on some charges stemming from an elaborate plot involving video surveillance. State officials said it was done to get information on the man challenging Truscello’s daughter, police chief Ed Christie.

Truscello and Zito actually were acquitted at trial of the wiretapping and invasion-of-privacy charges involving the surveillance. But they were convicted of records tampering.

They had been free while appealing the verdicts. Now it looks like they’ve run out of appeals.

The former district judge’s plea to his brethren on the state’s highest court has apparently fallen on deaf ears. The U.S. Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has rejected their appeal. It is expected an order now will be issued by the court ordering the two men to prison.

They are looking at a minimum of 90 days. Their sentence was for three to 23 months.

It has taken almost three years, but it is a reminder that no one is above the law. Not even in Folcroft. Anthony Truscello’s Folcroft.

The Wizard of Folcroft is going to prison.