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Guilty plea for woman accused of forging employer’s checks
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Posted on Mar 26 2006
A woman accused of forging checks to steal money from her employer, has entered a guilty plea.
Elizabeth Romero pleaded guilty to two counts of forgery.
Superior Court Associate Judge Juan T. Lizama accepted Romero’s plea and sentenced her to five years in prison, all suspended except four days.
Lizama gave Romero credit for the time she already served in jail.
The judge placed the defendant on five years of probation and required her to pay $2,254 in restitution.
Romero was ordered to perform 120 hours of community work service and submit to counseling evaluation at the Community Guidance Center.
In May 2005, the Attorney General’s Office charged Romero with six counts of forgery by forging checks to defraud her employer, WM Engineering Services LLC, in 2005.
The defendant signed a plea agreement with the government. She admitted committing two counts of forgery.
The agreement stated that on Jan.31, 2005 and March 15, 2005, Romero forged two checks in the amount of $829.50 and $235.
In other court news, a woman charged for assaulting a woman with a shoe has entered a no contest to assault and battery.
Lizama accepted Merry Joy Yamanka’s plea and sentenced her to 60 days in prison, all suspended.
Lizama placed the defendant on two months of probation and required her to pay $300 fine and write a letter of apology to the victim.
Yamanka was charged with assault and battery, and disturbing the peace.
The agreement stated that on May 8, 2003, the defendant hit the victim several times on the hand and back with a heel of a shoe.
