PITTSBURGH -- A New Castle man was sentenced to 11 years and three months in prison on a conviction of violating federal drug laws. Michael A. Waters, 31, of Blaine Street was accused, along with five other people, of trying to import about 11 pounds of cocaine to the United States. According to federal officials, Waters recruited a number of people to act as drug couriers. The couriers would travel to the Caribbean island nation of Aruba to obtain the cocaine and then tape it to their bodies and return to the United States on commercial airlines, they said. The conspiracy unraveled Nov. 2, 2000, when members of the Aruban National Police Force seized about 8 pounds of cocaine from Waters' couriers, federal officials said.
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Ex-worker accused of taking cash
Ex-worker accusedof taking cash
NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- A former New Castle Sanitation Authority worker is accused of taking $1,532.36 in cash while she worked for the authority.
Deanna Christofer Jacobs, 55, of New Castle, faces charges of theft by failure to make required disposition of funds received and misapplication of entrusted property of government or financial institutions.
Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Janice Wilson said the sanitation authority regularly writes off bills for vacant homes, often rentals without tenants or people who spend an extended time away from their homes.
An audit of the authority records revealed that cash payments were made at the authority office and stamped as paid, but later written off as vacant properties that went unpaid during the period May 1999 to October 2000, Wilson said. Wilson said Jacobs, who is the sister of sanitation authority director Richard Christofer, a former mayor of New Castle, worked as a clerk in the authority office at 110 E. Washington St.
Charges were filed Tuesday at District Justice Melissa Amodie's office. A preliminary hearing is set for March 1.
http://www.vindy.com/news/2002/jan/30/ex-worker-accused-of-taking-cash/
NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- A former New Castle Sanitation Authority worker is accused of taking $1,532.36 in cash while she worked for the authority.
Deanna Christofer Jacobs, 55, of New Castle, faces charges of theft by failure to make required disposition of funds received and misapplication of entrusted property of government or financial institutions.
Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Janice Wilson said the sanitation authority regularly writes off bills for vacant homes, often rentals without tenants or people who spend an extended time away from their homes.
An audit of the authority records revealed that cash payments were made at the authority office and stamped as paid, but later written off as vacant properties that went unpaid during the period May 1999 to October 2000, Wilson said. Wilson said Jacobs, who is the sister of sanitation authority director Richard Christofer, a former mayor of New Castle, worked as a clerk in the authority office at 110 E. Washington St.
Charges were filed Tuesday at District Justice Melissa Amodie's office. A preliminary hearing is set for March 1.
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