4 sentenced in Anchorage check-fraud scheme
Four people were sentenced Monday in a check-fraud scheme that last year cost Anchorage businesses tens of thousands of dollars and saw several people fall victim to identity theft.
Mail thefts and car break-ins let the defendants hijack Alaskans' bank accounts and write dozens of fake checks, prosecutors said.
Nakisha Reed, 37, pleaded guilty to one count of committing a scheme to defraud, Alaska State Troopers said in an online dispatch. Court records show Reed had originally been charged with 78 offenses in the case, including dozens of counts of theft, forgery and fraudulent use of an access device, from March to June of 2016.
Three other people — Reed's boyfriend, 41-year-old Derrick Grandberry-Williams; her daughter, 19-year-old Mia Stephens; and Jeffrey Debaere, 41 — also pleaded guilty Monday to single counts of second-degree forgery.
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