An Ogden bookkeeper faces sentencing in the theft of $190,000 over four years.
Susan Allred, 35, pleaded guilty last month to three of four second-degree felony theft charges. The fourth was dropped as part of a plea bargain. She faces sentencing June 24 before 2nd District Judge David E. Roth.She has signed a plea agreement to pay restitution of $100,000 to Model Linen Supply, the Ogden company where was fired last August after police were notifiied.
"Realistically, if it's $100,000 or $120,000 we don't expect to see it," Bud Tolliver, owner of Model Linen, said of the restitution order.
Tolliver said he was startled to find Allred had - in the time she worked for him - made a down payment on a house, remodeled and recarpeted it, put in a swimming pool, bought a new car and eaten in expensive restaurants "every night. On $8 an hour."
"The total loss to the company was in the area of $190,000," said Rob Carpenter, investigator with the Weber County attorney's office who shared the case with Ogden Police Detective Randy Lythgoe.
Efforts were unsuccessful to contact Allred or her attorney for comment.
The company was hindered by the thefts "but it really hurt the other employees," Tolliver said. "Raises have been damn hard to come by here in the last few years, for obvious reasons now."
She took only cash, Tolliver and the detectives said, taking sums from delivery drivers' collections. She covered those amounts by inflating discounts given customers and adjusting other accounts such as those to pay utilities, they said.
No funeral furlough
- dad is still aliveAssociated Press
POINT OF THE MOUNTAIN - A St. George woman who requested a prison furlough to attend her father's funeral apparently had planned an escape that was foiled when authorities learned the man was alive.
Department of Corrections investigators and the Salt Lake County attorney's office were to screen the case for possible charges against Joy Lynn Snyder, 24, said Utah State Prison spokesman Dave Franchina.
The episode began June 6 when Snyder telephoned her attorney, J. MacArthur Wright, and told him her father had died, said Utah State Prison spokesman Dave Franchina.
Snyder was in prison for a 90-day diagnostic evaluation based on her guilty plea to a bad check charge, a second-degree felony punishable by a term of one to 15 years.
The charges stemmed from five insufficient funds checks totaling $1,444. Snyder had not been prosecuted for numerous other bad checks written in the area of St. George and Cedar City for $9,646, Franchina said.
Snyder told Wright she wanted to attend her father's viewing and funeral June 9-10. The attorney contacted 5th District Judge James Shumate, who granted the furlough beginning at noon on June 9. Snyder was to be released to her husband or brother-in-law.
No one had showed up to get Snyder by 3 p.m. that day, and investigators learned the father, whose name was not available, was living in Cedar City, Franchina said.
Ivins man slays wife,
then kills himselfAssociated Press
IVINS, Washington County - A man fatally wounded his wife during a domestic dispute, then killed himself with a bullet to the head from the same rifle
Washington County Sheriff Glenwood Humphries said Jesus Garcia shot his wife, Judy McPhee Garcia, in the hall of the couple's home on the Shivwits Indian Reservation last Sunday night.
A single bullet from a .22-caliber rifle struck her in the right shoulder and apparently ricocheted into her lungs, Humphries said.
"He shot her and then went in the bedroom and shot himself," he said.
Deputies called to the home shortly before 11 p.m. by a daughter and son-in-law living in the basement administered to the woman until emergency medical technicians arrived. She was pronounced dead at Dixie Regional Medical Center.